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Electromagnetic Inertia

Have you ever thought “If an electron induces a magnetic field when it moves, and magnetic fields contains energy, where does the energy to create this field come from?”

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Electrostatic Potential Energy

The starting point for all electrostatic interactions is that between two point electric charges such as two electrons, or between a positron and an electron. In the 19th century scientists did not understand the interaction, and invented the concept of “potential energy” to provide the force that drove these particles together or apart. It was only when Einstein developed the equivalence of mass and energy that the true source of the energy became apparent.

You are probably familiar with the concept that electric fields contain energy and it is the interaction between the fields of the two charges that leads to changes in their energy and hence to the forces between them, energy being simply the integral of force over distance. This paper develops the equations for the interaction at any point in space near the charges, without recourse to “potential energy”.

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Electron Magnetic Resonance

Under certain conditions we can treat the electron as a combined magnet and gyroscope, and ignore all the other properties of the electron. This is called “Electron Magnetic Resonance”, or EMR for short (it is also called “Electron Paramagnetic Resonance”, or EPR).

All we need to consider is what happens when a magnet is lined up along the spin axis of a precessing gyroscope. If you think about it you will see that the magnetic field is rotating with the precession, and rotating magnetic fields radiate electromagnetic energy. Under suitable conditions they can also absorb energy.

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As you can see, an electron’s magnetic field can interact with an external magnetic field to store energy, and can exchange this magnetostatic energy for radiant photon energy.

Electron structure

Finally, a look at the electron itself, rather than its behaviour. Can we explain the electron’s behaviour in terms of its structure - is matter just frozen electromagnetic fields, or something more?

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