Re: challenge question ..
Hi,
I have been a passive reader of all mails in this column. But some how when I found the discussions getting closed with a savage attribute to the elementary sweet particle viz., electrons being gulpers of phottons, that too to protect itself from an approaching rival charge, it hurt my feelings, afterall we are all made up of these elementary particles and we owe our existance to them.
So, I have decided to float a new theory as follows, atleast to protect the interest of these elementary particles:
I suppose that the field around an electron is like a spherical spring whose spring constant keeps on reducing as square of the distance from its centre. At the centre of this springy field is the electron core having a mass. This means the springy structure stores energy in the potential form. If you bring another charge with similar structure symmetrically to the field, the fields interrct, Newton's law of reactionary forces are generated and if the the first electron were free to move it moves away in opposite direction to the direction of approach of the second electron. If the approaching electron were to move in a direction assymetric to the field structure of the first electron, then, the first electron would move away at an angle to the direction of movement of the approaching electron.
Here the energy input has come from the person who brought the second electron into the field of the first electron and first electron simply obeyed only action-reaction law of Newton.
Now if you were to hold both electrons from moving, they should still experience the repulsive force and when once released, both will move away from each other because of this reactionary force.
As the elctrons move the mass gains kinetic energy and the field generates a kinetic field which we call as magnetic field. For a constant velocity the electric field maitains itself, when the particle is accelerated the field changes its shape and a portion of the energy stored in the field is propagated as electromagnetic waves. If ultimately the particle loses all its imparted energy, the kinetic field vanishes and the static electric field alone surrounds the particle.
All that said above are indeed questionable, but I suppose those basic paticles will be atleast thankful to me for supporting their intrinsic ability to guard themselves against an invading enemy into their home space!!!!
With best regards and waiting to here more from the enlightened members of this group,
Laktronics