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What If Charge is Not Fundamental?
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What If Charge is Not Fundamental?
Season 8 Episode 9 | 13m 47s | CC
If you've studied any physics you know that like charges repel and opposite charges attract. But why? It's as though this thing - electric charge - is as fundamental a property of an object as its mass. It just sort of ... is. Well it turns out if you dig deep enough, the fundamental-ness of charge unravels, and in many things, including mass itself, are unraveled with it.
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