The Electromagnetic field, how Electric and Magnetic forces arise

I hope you like the video! A few clarifications: - This video was originally created in 2018, before I studied theoretical physics, which is why the content might not be as precise as the other more recent videos. - Many people are asking how the "playing catch" analogy can explain attraction forces. This is indeed the limit of the analogy. At the quantum scale, virtual particles are really just waves that are spread throughout all space. Therefore they can carry a momentum in any direction, which can have the effect of attracting or repelling particles. - In the stationary wire, many people are asking why the electrons are not contracted since they are moving. They indeed are contracted, but we consider that they were carefully spaced such that, when contracted, the wire has no electric charge. - At the end of the video, electromagnetic waves propagate at the speed of "real photons", and not "virtual photons"

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