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I've heard electromagnetic wave propagation described as a 'swarm of photons'. This makes sense to me in terms of the standard model, wrt. the photon being the 'carrier particle' for electromagnetism. However, what about something with a static electric field - what's the 'carrier particle' for that? Likewise with a magnetic field around, say, a permanent magnet?
I don't really understand why in the standard model, the electroweak force doesn't have a unique carrier particle but the electromagnetic does - would the electroweak only have a carrier particle at the extremes where the EM and WN are unified?
Sorry if these seem like dumb questions, I'm very rusty
I don't really understand why in the standard model, the electroweak force doesn't have a unique carrier particle but the electromagnetic does - would the electroweak only have a carrier particle at the extremes where the EM and WN are unified?
Sorry if these seem like dumb questions, I'm very rusty