Text: "More on photons." To exist, a charged particle like the electron requires a massless vector particle with which it interacts. The massless spin 1 particle may be identified with the photon. Matter is surrounded with an interaction field through which it may feel force and hence accelerate or decelerate; for the interaction field, like photons, a force or acceleration has no meaning. Letters to the editor. American Journal of Physics. 52(1), Jan. 1984. p. 11

See Also: photons, charged particles, electromagnetic fields, foundations of physics

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