Originally Posted by
Reality Check
Protons are not observed to decay so there you are.
Which means those theories that predict it are wrong. Have a
google on that.
Originally Posted by
Reality Check
No! There’s an online copy of John David Jackson’s Classical Electrodynamics
here. Use the read online-option and put double quotes around a phrase to search for it. See section 1.2 where he says
Although the thing that eventually gets measured is a force and
At the moment the electric field can be defined as the force per unit charge acting at a given point. Then see see section 11.10 where he says
one should properly speak of the electromagnetic field Fuv rather than E or B separately. The field concerned is the electromagnetic field. E and B aren't really fields, they're just ciphers for linear and rotational forces resulting from electromagnetic field interactions.
Originally Posted by Reality Check
Wow - what astounding ignorance, Farsight
!
An electron is a fundamental particle. There is nothing inside it to come apart!
Enough.