Electric charges act either as sources or sinks of the electric fluid. An electron is constantly absorbing electric fluid around it at some rate, call it ε. Protons are the reverse: they constantly pour electric "fluid" towards the surrounding space at rate ε, so fluid moves away from the proton with speed (where r is distance of the fluid away from the proton) so that the total flux of fluid going through any (imaginary) sphere which contains that proton is the area of the sphere times the speed of the fluid flowing through it: .

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The behavior of the electromagnetic field can be resolved into four different parts of a loop: (1) the electric and magnetic fields are generated by electric charges, (2) the electric and magnetic fields interact only with each other, (3) the electric and magnetic fields produce forces on electric charges, (4) the electric charges move in space. The feedback loop can be summarized in a list, including phenomena belonging to each part of the loop: charges generate fields Gauss's law Coulomb's law: charges generate ...

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Electrically charged particles are constantly emitting (or absorbing) photonic fluid, which is more commonly known as light. So how is light related to electromagnetic waves? Electromagnetic (E-M) waves are the undulatory movements of light, which can always be observed to be emitted by electric charges undergoing acceleration. If a charged particle is at rest, then it does not emit electromagnetic waves. Instead, it is surrounded by an electrostatic field. If a charged particle is in inertial motion, then the electrostatic field is j ...

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The fluid analogy is flawed, in that objects immersed in a moving fluid (e.g. a river) tend to be pushed by that fluid in such a way that the velocity of the object aligns with the velocity of the fluid. Once the velocities are aligned, the fluid's motion should vanish from the object's point of view. However, the force of an electric field on a charged particle is , a force that is independent of the velocity of the particle. This means that the particle will accelerate continually in the direction of the field. If the field were the ...

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Electromagnetic field - Incompressible fluids. The electric and magnetic vector fields can be thought of as being the velocities of a pair of incompressible fluids which permeate space. In the absence of charges these fluids would be at rest, so that their velocity fields would be zero. Since both fluids are incompressible, their densities do not change: it is not possible to compress magnetic or electric fluid into a smaller space. ...

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Alternative interpretation would be that the field is not actually a velocity field, but a flux density field of photonic fluid, which is constantly moving at the same speed: the speed of light, independent of the speed of the observer (the charged object). Photonic fluid never changes speed but can change net direction and the intensity of its net movement in that direction. The velocity field interpretation is related to the hypothesis of a luminiferous aether through which electromagnetic waves would propagate. The proposition that ...

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