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| Jul 31, 2020 at 19:34 | comment | added | CGS | Sure. And that's why I wrote that ultimately we don't know. Even to use a QED explanation that virtual photons are exchanged only pushes the question to a different level. Unfortunately, there are just some things we don't have satisfactory explanations for. For example, one can say that gravity is due to the warping of space by mass, but that only leads to the question: why does mass warp space? As far as I know, we don't know. | |
| Jul 31, 2020 at 19:27 | comment | added | Bob22 | " charges repel and unlike charges attract, we can only say that the fields created by these charges interact in such a way as to make this true." I agree this is the typical explanation but it still doesn't explain to me in a mechanistic sense of what is causing the observed effects: what thing is attracting/repelling the other thing? It is similar to the logic of my parents saying "because I said so" when young. | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 20:49 | history | answered | CGS | CC BY-SA 4.0 |