2006-11-16 11:55:29 · 3 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Maxwell combined with Einstein showed that the forces associated with elecricity and with magnetism are really the same. THis is because a moving charged particle creates magnetism, but if the particle is moving is based upon your reference frame (you can be moving with the particle and you wouldn't think it was moving).
Light is an electric and magnetic wave and they are always perpendicular to each other... it looks like this: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/rs/back/spectrum/e_mag.gif
A photon is when this wave acts like a particle, and the force that this particle carries is electricity and magnetism (electromagnetic force).
2006-11-16 12:26:56 · answer #1 · answered by xian gaon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Photons carry the electromagnetic force.
2006-11-16 20:11:47 · answer #2 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A photon is the transmition partical of the electromagnetic force.
2006-11-16 20:12:42 · answer #3 · answered by scorcher_charmander 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋