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Article #5014Re: The fundamental questions?
From: BOB DRUCKER, BERKELEY/LBL
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:27
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:27
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In article <sehari.724010247@class1.iastate.edu>, sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes... >--- Well, here's my two-cents worth on a few of them: >What is charge, why is it that we have Positive & negative charges? There is no answer to this question...yet. It's just a property of the universe that some particles are charged (and there are lots of kinds of charges: electro-weak, color, graviational). >why the smallest unit of positive charge is equal to smallest unit of >negative charge? Because every particle has an anti-particle. If you want to know why the charge of the leptons is a multiple of the quark charges...no one knows. Some theories hint at this but no one knows. >Why negative charge attaches to smaller mass than positive charge? It doesn't. Every particle has an anti-particle. Negative protons (anti-protons) are just as good as positive ones (just a bit more rare :). >Does Anti-mater exists? I take it you mean "do anti-ATOMS exist?". I don't think that any have ever been observed. There was an article in Scientific American last month about cooling anti-protons; soon we may be able to attach positrons to them and make anti-hydrogen. >What is causing the magnetic force, that is why spin of a charge in one >direction influences other charge spins? Why does not natural mass spin >generate similar effects? Natural mass (I assume that you mean macroscopic mass) spin _would_ cause this effect if you were spinning something that was charged (most matter has negative and positive charges that cancel out this effect).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!csa1.lbl.gov!drucker From: drucker@csa1.lbl.gov (BOB DRUCKER, BERKELEY/LBL) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: The fundamental questions? Date: 11 Dec 1992 13:27 PST Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA Lines: 36 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <11DEC199213274806@csa1.lbl.gov> References: <sehari.724010247@class1.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.196 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41