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Old 17th February 2013, 05:58 PM   #932
Reality Check
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Originally Posted by Farsight View Post
Well protons don't decay so there you go.
Protons are not observed to decay so thre you are.

Originally Posted by Farsight View Post
Back to the drawing board. Start by understanding what a field is, and that E and B aren't fields
Back to your high school sceince textbooks, Farsight.
E is an electric field.
B is a magnetic field.
They are components of an electromagnetic field.

Originally Posted by Farsight View Post
What keeps an electron together?
Wow - what astounding ignorance, Farsight !
An electron is a fundamental particle. There is nothing inside it to come apart!

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So the $64,000 dollar question really becomes what basic physics do you understand, Farsight?
You do not now what an electric field is.
You do not know what a magnetic field is.
You do not know what an electron is.
You do not know what relativistic means in a relativistic quantum field theory like the Higgs mechanism.
You do not know what intrinsic spin means in QM as shown by your use of macroscopic spins as in tornadoes.

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Originally Posted by Farsight View Post
Then ask yourself this: in low-energy proton-antiproton annihilation to gamma photons, where does the strong force go?
We shold ask ourselves a better question: What will be your next trivial question, derailing the thread?
There are no quarks after the annihilation so there is nothing to exert the strong force .
Likewise there is no EM force between an electron and a positron after they annihilate .
Likewise if the Sun were to magically vanish then there would be no gravitational force from the Sun !

Last edited by Reality Check; 17th February 2013 at 06:14 PM.
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