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Hello,
I have a question. I have being trying to get my hands on any QED book i can cause i love it! but once i found out that the electric and magnetic fields were actually quantized as photons, and that the force between charges is mediated by light, i asked myself a question which i have been unable to answer...
if charges are radiating an electric field in the form of photons (not the 1/r one, the 1/r^2 one) which are responsible for the forces between charges, then how come there is not a spectrum of radiation separate from the radiative field (the 1/r) that is responsible for the force between charges? And if there is, and i haven't been able to find documentation (sad day), can you point me to the paper so i can read and be happy
thank you
I have a question. I have being trying to get my hands on any QED book i can cause i love it! but once i found out that the electric and magnetic fields were actually quantized as photons, and that the force between charges is mediated by light, i asked myself a question which i have been unable to answer...
if charges are radiating an electric field in the form of photons (not the 1/r one, the 1/r^2 one) which are responsible for the forces between charges, then how come there is not a spectrum of radiation separate from the radiative field (the 1/r) that is responsible for the force between charges? And if there is, and i haven't been able to find documentation (sad day), can you point me to the paper so i can read and be happy
thank you