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Can someone please fucking explain what the fuck are em waves, why do charged particles create electric and magnetic forces, are these em waves just like sound waves or mathematical woodoo bullshit with probability waves, is it like a river of photons, what the fuck are photons even, are they actual things or just another one of those unnecessary mathematical objects that particle physicists like to come up with when they don't understand what the fuck is going on, electromagnetism hurts my brain if I don't turn it off and blindly take in the information without thinking about all the bullshit ontological assumptions undergirding the field

>> No.15039211

>>15039206
>bullshit ontological assumptions
if being right makes your brain hurt, you can always go back to philosophy

>> No.15039240

>>15039211
Modern scientists are garbage specifically because they aren't trained to be philosophically critical. All them great ones were from either late 19th century or early 20th century when physicists still had to learn philosophy.

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>>15039240
Thanks for your feedback.

Now back to >>>/lit/

>> No.15039250

>>15039244
Am I unbanned?

>> No.15039257
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A moving charge creates EM waves because it's disturbing the field. The ripple is the wave. The field always exists (whatever that means), but it's magnitude can change.

>> No.15039333

>>15039257
Elaborate without using buzzwords like field or energy or force. Explain what happens in Physical reality, rather than in your schizo brain.

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>>15039206
>why do charged particles create electric and magnetic forces
It's a physical law, for now. It's like asking why is the water wet.

>> No.15039813

>>15039333
We don't know, happy?

>> No.15039857

>>15039206
We don't know. Talking about *what* a field is or what the physical nature of a particle/wave/waveparticle is is getting down to fundamental limits of what we know about the world.

Fields are a good mathematical model for how a lot of things in nature work, but we know that in many classical examples, fields are just an approximation of some other process (a flow field in a fluid, for example, is an approximation of conservation of matter, momentum, and energy applied to a many-many-many-body system). It may be something similar for "field forces" or maybe fields are really a manifestation of something else, we don't fucking know...

... yet.