Charges: What Are They & How Do They Exist?

[Gear300]

I've been working with charges for sometime...but barely have any idea as to what charges are...how do they exist?

 

[stewartcs]

I've been working with charges for sometime...but barely have any idea as to what charges are...how do they exist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_charge

CS

 

[Gear300]

Hmmm...well...I guess the question I was trying to ask is why are there charges...but there isn't much of an answer to that (after all, science tells the how rather than the why).

 

[quantumcore]

charge is a fundamental property of matter that is very difficult to describe in physical terms, you find electron , quarks etc have charge , but if you break electron or quarks ( which is a fool thing to say i.e they are elementry particle ) you are not going to find any separate thing like charge. types of charge is some different question that can be described
as you can call them +tive or -tive as they are antagonastic.But it is totally upon you which you will choose as +tive or -tive.So as by convention we had chosen charge on electron
as -tive.
but i don't think that you are asking any thing about the types of charge , but you are looking for true meaning of charge.But i don't think that anyone can fully describe it in physical terms.