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Marcus99
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Hi,
I wonder if anyone could help please as I'm really struggling to understand this ! As a total layman all my life (now retired) to everything bar none in physics, no doubt my question will be mere child's play to everyone so my apologies in advance !
If I've got the following correctly could someone help provide the simplest non-physics analogy possible as to how to understand that an electric charge will automatically create an electromagnetic field ? I understand that positive and negative poles will repel each other whilst their opposites will attract, but what is it about the electrical charge itself that can "initiate", if that's the right word, the electromagnetic field in the first place ? In other words why can't an electric charge remain an electric charge on its own ?
Really hope someone can help...
Thanks in advance
I wonder if anyone could help please as I'm really struggling to understand this ! As a total layman all my life (now retired) to everything bar none in physics, no doubt my question will be mere child's play to everyone so my apologies in advance !
If I've got the following correctly could someone help provide the simplest non-physics analogy possible as to how to understand that an electric charge will automatically create an electromagnetic field ? I understand that positive and negative poles will repel each other whilst their opposites will attract, but what is it about the electrical charge itself that can "initiate", if that's the right word, the electromagnetic field in the first place ? In other words why can't an electric charge remain an electric charge on its own ?
Really hope someone can help...
Thanks in advance