What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
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What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?

C2ProficientOctober 31, 202619 min
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If you've studied any physics you know that like charges repel and opposite charges attract. But why? It's as though this thing, electric charge, is as fundamental a property of an object as its mass.

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It just sort of exists. Well, it turns out that if you dig deep enough, the fundamentalness of charge unravels. And many things, including mass itself, unravel with it. Although many mysteries remain in physics, at least our understanding of electricity

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and magnetism seem pretty complete. The math that describes it, Maxwell's equations, or quantum electrodynamics, seem to wrap it up nicely. Except that all of electromagnetism is powered by a single property, electric charge, and neither Maxwell's equations nor QED say a thing about what electric charge really

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