Okay, so let me get this straight with some questions.
1) Does an electric field only exist between individual protons and neutrons? If so, then if there is an object (say a newspaper) with a negative charge and another object with a positive charge, is that strong electric field between the two a combination of a bunch of individual electric fields, or does an actual, collaborative group of charges create one unified electric field? Is there a big daddy or a bunch of little bros?
2) I understand that an electric field is defined at every point in space. However, what I don't know is if there are, in a sense, multiple electric fields or does all of space have one, huge, warped electric field?
3) If the answer to #2 is that there is not a single electric field, what happens when electric fields overlap, for instance? What about a particle caught in the middle?
4) Does an electric field exist independently of matter? Or is an electric field more of a conceptual label of how certain charge interact with one another? Basically what I'm saying is do these fields truly exist, or are they only abstract concepts to describe how negative and positive particles accelerate and their behavior?
Thank you for your time. It is extremely complex stuff to understand, so I need all the help I can get.
1) Does an electric field only exist between individual protons and neutrons? If so, then if there is an object (say a newspaper) with a negative charge and another object with a positive charge, is that strong electric field between the two a combination of a bunch of individual electric fields, or does an actual, collaborative group of charges create one unified electric field? Is there a big daddy or a bunch of little bros?
2) I understand that an electric field is defined at every point in space. However, what I don't know is if there are, in a sense, multiple electric fields or does all of space have one, huge, warped electric field?
3) If the answer to #2 is that there is not a single electric field, what happens when electric fields overlap, for instance? What about a particle caught in the middle?
4) Does an electric field exist independently of matter? Or is an electric field more of a conceptual label of how certain charge interact with one another? Basically what I'm saying is do these fields truly exist, or are they only abstract concepts to describe how negative and positive particles accelerate and their behavior?
Thank you for your time. It is extremely complex stuff to understand, so I need all the help I can get.