Again, you are confusing me greatly. No tough assignment, but then
sometimes I think I understand these things. If there are no photons
(virtual or otherwise) in the field so that the electron in a hydrogen
atom can know that the proton is there how will they attract each other?
Is action at a distance coming back? Are there other kinds of
excitations in a field (non-photon, non-graviton) that are
responsibility for the electronstatic field? WBN
Barlow Newbolt
Professor of Physics
Washington and Lee University
e-mail: newboltw@wlu.edu
telephone: 540-463-8881
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"Had I been present at the creation, I would have given
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