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| Oct 30, 2024 at 8:53 | comment | added | James | (+1) Could you elaborate in the case of a magnet just sitting there without any happening, is its electric and magnetic field continually maintained/enforced by "photon particle mediators", or by electromagnetic waves? Is it accurate to say that a photon can only be emitted uni-directionally, and so omni-directional continuously enforced fields like a magnet's cannot be maintained using photon particles patrolling the magnet's vicinity? | |
| Nov 4, 2010 at 7:15 | history | answered | David Z | CC BY-SA 2.5 |