And What Could Be The Reason
2007-05-18 18:25:20 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
No, if they lost their charge they would cease to be a proton or an electron.
A proton's charge comes from the combination of quarks within the proton (UUD) which has a total charge of +1. If we were to remove this charge the quarks would have to change to UDD, which would be a neutron, not a proton. In fact, neutrons actually decay into protons by beta decay.
It is not known why electrons are negatively charged as we have found no particle that makes up electrons. Electrons appear to be about the most fundamental particle we have discovered. Electrons, by definition, must be negatively charged.
2007-05-18 18:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by msi_cord 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The charge on a particle is indeed a property of the particle itself, therefore it cannot be removed or changed.
2007-05-19 13:46:46 · answer #2 · answered by bjh_101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋