Like the photon is to light, is there a basic "magneton" particle that makes up magnetic fields?
2006-09-04 08:42:36 · 3 answers · asked by juicy_wishun 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Hi. Yes, it's called a photon. Electromagnetism is carried by photons, just as light, radio, and gamma rays are.
2006-09-04 09:01:46 · answer #1 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Using your analogy the photon is the particle that carries the magnetic force.
A slightly more interesting question is is there a magnetic monopole? If you think of the electric force you have electrons which have a negative charge and then there are protons with a positive charge. An you combine them to have dipoles, quadrupoles, etc. However as far as we have observed magnets always come as dipoles. Some advanced theories predict that their is a magnetic monopole and physicists are trying to find it.
2006-09-04 17:39:58 · answer #2 · answered by sparrowhawk 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Magnetism is an interaction with the substance of space which at one time was called the Aether by Enistein which he expounded in his paper in 1920 at Leipzig. The difference between the Electric and magnetism phenomena exists only in the configuration of the deformation of space. Einstein only referred to the deformation of space due the the size of the mass. However he could not take space curvature relativity as correlating to magnetism.That is why he could not understand that Gravitation and the Electrical phenomena are really one and the same.If He would have thought this way he would have solved the problem of a Unified theory .
I did not find it a problem figuring it out.
2006-09-04 16:27:45 · answer #3 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋