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Old 19th February 2013, 01:00 PM   #950
Farsight
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Originally Posted by Reality Check View Post
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 View Post
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.
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.
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