The discussion centers on the fundamental mechanism of attraction between positive and negative charges, highlighting that while the exchange of virtual photons explains repulsion, the attraction remains less understood. Participants acknowledge the limitations of physical science in explaining the underlying reasons for the universe's rules, particularly the existence of only two types of charge. References to Feynman diagrams and scattering amplitudes suggest that these concepts may provide insights into the attraction mechanism, as noted in works by physicists Michael Peskin and Anthony Zee.
PREREQUISITESPhysicists, students of quantum mechanics, and anyone interested in the fundamental forces of nature and their underlying principles.
There may not a better answer than "That's the way the universe we live in works". Physical science is about discovering and understanding the rules that govern the behavior of the universe; but that doesn't tell us why the universe is governed by one set of rules instead of another. There are two kinds of charge, not one or three or thirty-three, but no amount of studying the behavior of the two-types-of-charge universe that we live in will tell us why it's two instead of three or thirty-three.efdee said:No one could ever explain to me the mechanism how attraction of positive and negative charge works.