2006-11-20 07:05:47 · 5 answers · asked by aryan z 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Calling the electron charge negative and the proton charge positive is an arbitrary choice. Ben Franklin is generally credited with first making that choice for us.
Why do electrons have charge? Why do charges experience the forces they experience? Because that's how God created the universe and its physical laws. It's fundamental to atomic structure. If charge didn't exist, or if the forces behaved differently, we wouldn't have the universe as we know it.
2006-11-20 07:19:52 · answer #1 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ben Franklin argued that electricity was the result of a single fluid within everything, but that flowed most readily through metals. He did not know which direction it flowed, however (toward the resin or toward the fur when the two are rubbed together). He seems to have just picked a direction at random and supposed that it didn't really matter that much anyway. So, we're stuck with electrons having a negative charge.
2006-11-20 15:53:56 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electrons have negative charge and positive charge for equality electronic
2006-11-20 15:44:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because someone at some time decided that this particular charge would be called negative. If we called all negative charges positive and all the positive - negative, nothing would change.
2006-11-20 15:24:10 · answer #4 · answered by misiekram 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the part of the proton
2006-11-20 15:09:43 · answer #5 · answered by yuri Romanov 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋