On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint <[email protected]> wrote: > I know this has been discussed in the past years, but I'd like to put this > thought out there for the Vorts who joined in the last 12 months... > > What is electric 'charge'? > > Yes, yes, I know what it is according to fizzix books, but the Vort > Collective tries to probe down past the 'practical' definition into what it > *really* is. Can you separate the 'charge' of an electron (e-) or proton > (p+) from its mass? > > First some things to consider... > 1) the CHARGE of an e- and a p+ are the same magnitude, but 'opposite' > 2) yet, the MASS of a p+ is 1836 times that of an e- > 3) the nucleus (which contains the protons) is likewise much smaller > compared to the physical extent of the electron 'shells'. > > Because of 1) and 2), it would seem that charge has nothing to do with mass, > and because of 3), it's not a function of size/volume either. So, what is > it?
On the contrary, don't you think it is indicative that positive and negative charge are more than simply opposites of each other? The difference between the charges is related to mass and size/shape. Dare to be naive. -- Buckminster Fuller Harry
