Yeah, I get that there's a field around an object and that the field diminshes over distance and that other objects feel the force and that there's field lines. But all of that is the effect, not the cause. What I don't understand is what the field is made of and how it works. I figure it's got...
I hope you'll excuse me if I'm a little slow on this one. :) But I still don't understand.
When you put your finger or the charged object into the stream, aren't you tapping into an energy source that's already there, the stream? I'm guessing this is the battery or power source? Then if...
Does that mean if you pull the magnets apart and then bring them back together over and over you're charging the fields, then using the energy when you let them attract every time? Sorta like a kenetic-to-magnetic battery?
Thanks, Nate. You put years of wonder to rest with the answer "no one knows." And in a weird way that satisfies me somehow. Now I can get some rest while I wait for them to build bigger particle accelerators. :smile:
I know it's a basic question, but I don't understand this one either. And I can't find an answer anywhere. I've seen the iron filings and the magnetic field lines with my own eyes but what is it? What makes it curve like that and come back around? What's it made of?
I've racked my brain over this one since I was 15 and I really can't figure it out. I can see how two electrons would bounce away from each other with the exchange of a virtual photon, since one pushes off on the photon and the other absorbs it(even if I don't understand how the electron knows...
Does that mean if we were the monkey we could sit there yanking on the rope and the only thing that would happen is we would move up? Maybe it's just me and my lack of monkey experience but somehow that doesn't sound quite right.
It seems like the weight and your monkey self would rise. lol...