Re: What is the source of charged particle's seemingly limitless charge


rds wrote:
In physics class we always seemd to start with the premiss that
electric chage was caused by potentials set up between charged
particles. It was always just assumed that these particles (electrons
and protons) were just there. And that their charge, (which seems to
provide the energy for all of our physical world) are just assumed to
be there.

I can see for example a field set up between two charged particles as a
perpetual flow of something through space. The proton as the source (+)
and electron as the sink (-) . It looks like the source's are
perpetual. Is this because the sink's somehow return the energy back to
the sources (kind of behind the scenes) ?

I've never seen that point addressed. Magnatic fields are caused by
moving charges, but what causes the perpetual charge of these charged
particles?

What perpetual charges? The magnitude of charge on an electron and
proton is 1.602 x 10^-19 Coulombs. That's a finite amount.

A field is not a flow of anything, although at one time it was thought
to be. Hence terms like flux. The modern concept of field is based on
force laws. That's all there is to it.

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