diff --git a/readmore/the_electromagnetic_interaction.html b/readmore/the_electromagnetic_interaction.html index 8c06080..0116ba7 100644 --- a/readmore/the_electromagnetic_interaction.html +++ b/readmore/the_electromagnetic_interaction.html @@ -2,11 +2,13 @@ that it is made of a proton with electric charge +1 and an electron with charge -1. Particles with opposite electric charge attract each other just like magnets. This is an example of the electromagnetic -force, or “the electromagnetic interaction”.
What is interaction? +force, or "the electromagnetic interaction". + +How do the proton and the electron know about each other? How do -they “interact”, and what do we mean by “interaction”? Particles +they "interact", and what do we mean by “interaction”? Particles interact with each other by exchanging other particles. How does this work?
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ receive the tools momentum, carrying him in the direction of flight. What happened? The two astronauts are now floating away from each other, whereas they were approaching each other before. They exchanged a tool, and transmitted momentum from one another, a process -particle physicists call “scattering”. Sadly, this example only works +particle physicists call "scattering". Sadly, this example only works for a repelling interaction. However, there is a similar example, that also works for an attractive interaction, which is a little more complicated. @@ -101,10 +103,10 @@ called fermions (all particles with half-integer spin are fermions). -Like all other bosons, photons can - given that sufficient energy is +Like all other bosons, photons can - given that sufficient energy is available - be produced out of nowhere and can also vanish into nothingness, leaving behind nothing but energy. Therefore, the -electrons and protons in the atoms - as oppo
sed to the persons in +electrons and protons in the atoms - as opposed to the persons in the boats we used as an analogy earlier - do not need to carry around their messengers (in our case photons), as they can simply be produced by all particles that carry charge.
@@ -112,7 +114,7 @@ by all particles that carry charge.The exchange of photons between particles is what we call -“electromagnetic interaction”, The photon can create either attraction +"electromagnetic interaction", The photon can create either attraction or repulsion between particles and transport momentum as well as energy. Now we know what binds together the electron and the nucleus to form atoms, such as the Hydrogen atom or the Helium atom that we