Hi,
fields? Well yes, this is probably the last post before I will write about Higgs boson. Today you will learn that everything is made up of fields and that particle is just a special vibration.
Take for example magnet, it is something totally special if you think about it. Not that it sticks to stuff but that you can feel how it wants to stick without actually touching anything, just through EMPTY SPACE!
Magnet has his magnetic field all around, that is why we can feel it from some distance and the strength decreases with distance increasing.
On the picture above you can see lines of force around magnet.
This is electromagnetism and now we know that there is electromagnetic field around all the stuff that have charge. We know that we can magnetize needle using electric current.
This field is not only around magnets but also around all things that have mass, this is called gravitational field and even that it does not sound very exciting to us, in Newtonian age it was very cool when Newton found out that there is similarity between apple falling on his head and Moon orbiting Earth!
What happens when you start to rapidly move with source of electromagnetic field? Well you create waves. If you do it well enough such waves will create light! This light then comes to you in quantum! If you do it more rapidly you will get gamma rays and if you do it less rapidly you will get radio waves. This is just a vibration of field.
Or when you take radioactive decay. There is neutron which somehow changes itself into proton, electron and antineutrino. This is just a change of vibration in various fields.
Now there are 4 fields if I do not count Higgs field. What physicists want to achieve is the prove that all those fields are just one field and everything is just a various vibration of it, creating the effect of gravity, electromagnetism and so on. This would be the Theory of Everything.
Dragallur
Science and rationality 
Faraday suggested the idea of lines of force but they are just representation of a mysterious force.
Where does this force originate?
Where does its energy come from?
Why are only a few substances magnetic like iron colbalt and nickel?
Why is liquid oxygen magnetic.
It is surely suggested that all things are made of atoms. But why is carbon so different from the other atoms? in that it forms long chains of complex molecules.
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I will answer them as soon as I get to computer! Thanks for asking!
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The force with the energy originates from electron and his spin.
Everything is magnetic in strong enough magnetic field. Ni, Fe and Co get magnetic much more easily.
Liquid oxygen is only paramagnetic, this means that it will stop being magnetic when it leaves magnetic field.
Carbon makes such a complex molecules because at the same time it is relatively small to fit those big molecules and it can have 4 bonds.
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