Since I believe that:
1. Gravity is nothing more than an imbalance in electric fields
2. Magnetism is nothing more than a minor effect of moving charges/moving fields
3. Atomic physics and nuclear physics cannot be done right without having the electromagnetism right to start with,
Then it seems clear that the most vital thing to figure out is the business of charged particles and their associated electric fields and how they interact with each other. But either I'm totally lacking in imagination or totally lazy or both those things, because I'm just not certain where to go next.
My present feeling is that what we call magnetism is mostly a simple result of propagation delay, i.e., the effects of the distortion of electric fields as they move through the aether. O.K., so? What do I need to do next?
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Lee,
It occurs to me that if this problem were easily solved it would have been done so already. Ultimately, the problem, as simple as it may actually be, is complex enough to stump even the brightest of minds.
We just stumble in the dark devising schemes which describe the reality only too little to answer all the questions of which we seek resolution.
I think one question which would substantially help us to greater understanding is the question of the constitution of protons. Try as we might, we have never been about to achieve the decay of a proton. How are they "positive" charged? How are any objects charged (for that matter) whether "positive" or "negative"?
Up to now, the minds of Atomic physics and nuclear physics would tell us the questions I posited needn't be answered. And I suppose they could be right. Maybe it isn't important how a proton is "positively charged" Or how it is that a positive charge is on the one hand a repulsive force to other positive charges and yet still can be conceived to be an "attractive" force as you previously mentioned.
In the end, one decides or in the case of the physics community ... a group decides what is an appropriate question to ask. But I posit this thought...
The next step is to ask a question, regardless of one's opinion of its appropriateness, and see what answers he may conceptualize.
Warm regards, Phil
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