[jccc (OP)]

suppose we can measure the force between 2 electrons light year apart, can we assume electron has a light year radius?

what if we can measure any amount of force? is force liner?

i had a feeling, box and i experienced most headaches thinking science. for we are slower.

 

[jccc (OP)]

if i am an electron
every where i reach is space
every charge i feel is friend
my arms are too long
longer than all your time
i love protons
they will hold me tight
i hate electrons
they always push me around
there's 1 thing i don't understand
why God made those tiny tiny baby trons
i hate them more than anything
i haven't had any since day 1
cus protons love them more

[jccc (OP)]

simple question no answer?

no wiki? no thought? no opinion?

must be a dumb question.

how do you think Box?

[guest39538]

simple question no answer?

no wiki? no thought? no opinion?

must be a dumb question.

how do you think Box?

I think the radius is variable

[jccc (OP)]

please be precise, science is not politic.

[julrich]

F = k (q₁q₂) / r²

F = (9 x 10⁹ N) (1.60217657×10^-19 C)² / 9.46x10¹⁵m

F = 2.44x10^-44 N of electrostatic force between two electrons with a radius of 1 light year.

[chiralSPO]

The Earth exerts a gravitational field that is non-zero at a distance of a light year, does that mean the Earth is a light year big?

[PmbPhy]

suppose we can measure the force between 2 electrons light year apart, can we assume electron has a light year radius?

No. Of course not. What led you to such a crazy notion? First of all the electron has zero radius. The force exerted by one electron by another is determined solely by the distance between them (since the charge on an electron is a fixed and given quantity).

what if we can measure any amount of force? is force liner?

No. Most forces aren't linear. (once again you have yet another spelling error. It's "linear" not "liner").

[jccc (OP)]

suppose we can measure the force between 2 electrons light year apart, can we assume electron has a light year radius?

No. Of course not. What led you to such a crazy notion? First of all the electron has zero radius. The force exerted by one electron by another is determined solely by the distance between them (since the charge on an electron is a fixed and given quantity).

what if we can measure any amount of force? is force liner?

No. Most forces aren't linear. (once again you have yet another spelling error. It's "linear" not "liner").

if electron has zero radius, it should not occupy space, how could a photon hit an electron?

the distance between charged particles is linear, f=ke x q1q2/r^2, therefore force is linear?

[PmbPhy]

if electron has zero radius, it should not occupy space, how could a photon hit an electron?

Here we have you yet once again thinking of quantum particles using classical notions. Electrons and photons aren't classical particles, they're quantum mechanical ones. To understand scattering cross sections for photons and electrons you'd have to study particle physics and/or quantum field theory. I haven't gotten around to that yet but I contacted a friend and asked him for the QM explanation and am awaiting his response.

the distance between charged particles is linear, f=ke x q1q2/r^2, therefore force is linear?

Nonsense yet again. A force is linear if the magnitude of the force is proportional to distance. For example; the gravitational force of a particle in a uniform gravitational field is F = -mgz. This force is linear. However f=kq1q2/r²  is not linear because the magnitude of the force is not proportional to distance.

[PmbPhy]

if electron has zero radius, it should not occupy space, how could a photon hit an electron?

I did some digging and found the answer. As I said, you keep thinking in terms of classical particles whereas photons and electrons are quantum mechanical particles so the impressions like this that you use are totally wrong. The answer lies in what's known as a scattering cross section. The Klein–Nishina formula gives the differential cross section of photons scattered from a single free electron in lowest order of quantum electrodynamics. A differential cross section is a scalar that only quantifies the intrinsic rate of an event.

You can read more about these things at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein%E2%80%93Nishina_formula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_section_(physics)#Differential_cross_section

After all this time that we've all suggested reading a book on physics have you ever seriously considered following those suggestions even a little bit?

[jeffreyH]

if electron has zero radius, it should not occupy space, how could a photon hit an electron?

I did some digging and found the answer. As I said, you keep thinking in terms of classical particles whereas photons and electrons are quantum mechanical particles so the impressions like this that you use are totally wrong. The answer lies in what's known as a scattering cross section. The Klein–Nishina formula gives the differential cross section of photons scattered from a single free electron in lowest order of quantum electrodynamics. A differential cross section is a scalar that only quantifies the intrinsic rate of an event.

You can read more about these things at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein%E2%80%93Nishina_formula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_section_(physics)#Differential_cross_section

After all this time that we've all suggested reading a book on physics have you ever seriously considered following those suggestions even a little bit?

Pete. Seriously? You expect jccc to ever understand what you are asking him to read? I admire your perseverance.

[PmbPhy]

Pete. Seriously? You expect jccc to ever understand what you are asking him to read? I admire your perseverance.

Absolutely not. I don't expect him to understand it at all. My point is that some things are so far over his head that he has no hope of understanding it so he shouldn't bother trying unless he learns physics. Since that's never going to happen he should just give it up.

[alancalverd]

First of all the electron has zero radius.

Ummm....well.....the classical model is a point charge but we know the electron has mass, angular momentum, and a magnetic moment, so we can define something analogous to a radius even though the classical equations give us the wrong answer.

If you have a lifetime to spare, you could introduce jccc to quantum electrodynamics, but you would probably have more fun poking your eye out with a stick - it would certainly be about as productive.

[PmbPhy]

Ummm....well.....the classical model is a point charge but we know the electron has mass, angular momentum, and a magnetic moment, so we can define something analogous to a radius even though the classical equations give us the wrong answer.

Saying things like that will always lead people to wrong ideas. If the electron had a non-zero radius then there'd be problems with that. I forget what they are but I do recall reading and following the arguments to their conclusions. Fritz Rohrlich discusses this in his text "Classical Charged Particles".

[jccc (OP)]

problems like:

why electron and proton not contact?

is hydrogen atom 2 d or 3 d?

how electrons move relate to the nucleus?

why no discharge within atoms?

why atoms are not compressible?

wiki nothing, book nothing, still wonder.

can someone help, give answers that are understandable.

[chiralSPO]

why electron and proton not contact?
they do contact--it's called an atom. Why do they not combine to form neutrons? Because atoms are more stable unless there is a lot of pressure forcing them to combine into neutrons (like in a neutron star)

is hydrogen atom 2 d or 3 d?
atoms are definitely 3D, think of them as spherical.

how electrons move relate to the nucleus?
concepts like motion don't work well on (sub)atomic scale

why no discharge within atoms?
there is no way for an atom to discharge within itself

why atoms are not compressible?
they are compressible

[jccc (OP)]

is this science or politic?

how electron and proton contact?

is electron circling or not?

how can 1 electron circling 1 proton to form 3 d hydrogen atom? isn't orbits are 2 d?

why is micro world is so strange? because we can not see it clear?

[alancalverd]

is this science or politic?

science, at least as far as I am concerned.

how electron and proton contact?

they don't

is electron circling or not?

no

how can 1 electron circling 1 proton to form 3 d hydrogen atom? isn't orbits are 2 d?

irrelevant model

why is micro world is so strange? because we can not see it clear?

nothing strange about it - it's happening all the time, everywhere. It's just that the mathematics that describes very small things and very big things is more complicated than the mathematics of everyday things. But there's no mystery: quantum physics turns into classical physics when you add it up over huge numbers of particles, and relativity turns into classical mechanics at low speeds.   

[jccc (OP)]

if electron is not bigger than my head, why is my headache?

why is electrons flirt around never hit the target? is any force stronger than the attraction force between electron and proton in the whole universe?

if electron is not circling, there would be no centrifugal force, electron should falling down to proton?

what is correct model for a hydrogen atom?

isn't in micro world, newton's law not working? coulomb's law not working?