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lilythmagebor
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Note: I am not studying the topic in a class. I'm a complete layman when it comes to physics, so you may have to provide lots of detail in small words for me to really understand, heh.
This was my stream of consciousness thought process:
Radio wave > electromagnetic radiation > magnetism > electron > subatomic particle > quark > electro...magnetism?
If I am understanding what I am reading, the movement of electrons creates magnetism.
So can someone explain to me why I'm reading that quarks, which are smaller than electrons, have an electric charge, which in turn creates electromagnetism? Is there an even smaller particle entirely responsible for electricity/magnetism that I am missing, or that we haven't discovered?
Essentially what I am looking for is an answer for what creates electromagnetic waves, where that answer does not create more questions. It is difficult for me to accept that electrons create electromagnetism, when a smaller subatomic particle has electromagnetic properties not related to electrons.
Be gentle on my lack of knowledge/understanding?
This was my stream of consciousness thought process:
Radio wave > electromagnetic radiation > magnetism > electron > subatomic particle > quark > electro...magnetism?
If I am understanding what I am reading, the movement of electrons creates magnetism.
So can someone explain to me why I'm reading that quarks, which are smaller than electrons, have an electric charge, which in turn creates electromagnetism? Is there an even smaller particle entirely responsible for electricity/magnetism that I am missing, or that we haven't discovered?
Essentially what I am looking for is an answer for what creates electromagnetic waves, where that answer does not create more questions. It is difficult for me to accept that electrons create electromagnetism, when a smaller subatomic particle has electromagnetic properties not related to electrons.
Be gentle on my lack of knowledge/understanding?