Re: How can neutrons have magnetism if they have no electricity?



Radium wrote:

Hi:

If all magnetism is electrical in origin, then how can a neutron --
being a completely non-electric entity -- have any magnetism at all?

http://www.answers.com/topic/neutron-magnetic-moment

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994PhDT........62G

Quarks are chargedm and of inconstant location,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleon

The question you should ask is "if the neutron has a magnetic moment,
why doesn't it have a non-zero electric dipole or quadrupole moment?"

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