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2022-12-08: How Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles?

  • 10:44: Normally we think of electrons as repelling each other via the electromagnetic force - mediated by photons.

2022-11-16: Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?

  • 06:40: ... the one hand we have the electromagnetic force trying to force apart all those positively charged protons, and the ...

2022-09-28: Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems In Physics?

  • 05:55: And that’s exactly what the  fine structure constant is:   it’s the coupling strength of the electromagnetic force.
  • 06:23: So the Fine Structure Constant sets the  "strength" of the electromagnetic force.
  • 06:37: So it’s starting to make sense why the fine structure constant appears in all of these formulas that depend on the electromagnetic force.

2022-08-24: What Makes The Strong Force Strong?

  • 00:28: ... electrons are held in their orbitals by the electromagnetic force - opposite charges attract, so the negatively-charged electrons are ...

2022-04-27: How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass

  • 02:50: ... this field are the photon - our first gauge  boson and carrier of electromagnetic force. ...

2022-03-16: What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?

  • 12:43: That event - the breaking of electroweak symmetry  - created the weak and electromagnetic forces as we know them today.

2022-01-27: How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole?

  • 06:16: ... example the electromagnetic force is communicated between charged particles by transferring virtual ...

2021-10-05: Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist

  • 09:00: We talked about that before - about how the breaking of the symmetry of the Higgs field separated the weak and electromagnetic forces.

2021-04-07: Why the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting!

  • 01:56: ... Model that describes how particles with electric charge interact via the electromagnetic force, quantum ...

2021-01-26: Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?

  • 02:05: Any electrically charged particle experiences the electromagnetic force and can communicate with other charged particles by exchanging photons.
  • 11:12: ... and antielectrons, or positrons, interact very strongly via the electromagnetic force - which means they find each other too ...

2020-11-04: Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces

  • 03:20: This was an early hint that somehow the electromagnetic force, which acts on charged particles, was playing a role here.

2018-10-03: How to Detect Extra Dimensions

  • 05:02: And it doesn't cancel out, like the electromagnetic force.

2018-08-15: Quantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction

  • 01:13: ... describe how this field interacts with charged particles to give us the electromagnetic force, which binds electrons to atoms, atoms to molecules, and therefore, you ...

2018-06-20: The Black Hole Information Paradox

  • 14:01: But quantum-field theory imagines the electromagnetic force as being transmitted by virtual photons.

2018-06-13: What Survives Inside A Black Hole?

  • 02:58: After all, the forces involved, namely the gravitational and electromagnetic forces, are only communicated at the speed of light.
  • 07:34: ... so the gravitational and electromagnetic forces have infinite range, and so Gauss's law demands that the mass and charge ...

2017-10-19: The Nature of Nothing

  • 04:33: For example, QFT describes the electromagnetic force as the exchange of virtual photons between charged particles.
  • 05:55: And so virtual photons can exist for any amount of time, long enough to carry the electromagnetic force to any distance.

2017-09-28: Are the Fundamental Constants Changing?

  • 03:37: It's a dimensionless description of the strength of the electromagnetic force.

2016-11-16: Strange Stars

  • 06:45: The electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force were unified as the electroweak force.

2016-03-30: Pulsar Starquakes Make Fast Radio Bursts? + Challenge Winners!

  • 03:33: ... small, photons don't have to get too close before they interact via the electromagnetic force. ...

2016-03-02: What’s Wrong With the Big Bang Theory?

  • 01:52: ... force, they become just like the photon, which itself carries the electromagnetic force. ...
  • 02:05: This means that the weak and electromagnetic forces sort of merge into the one electroweak force.

2016-01-06: The True Nature of Matter and Mass

  • 10:06: Then, without an infinite source and sink of weak hypercharge, the weak nuclear force and the electromagnetic force were all the same force.

2015-12-16: The Higgs Mechanism Explained

  • 04:26: ... like regular electric charge, which lets all electrons feel the electromagnetic force, except in this case, it lets only left-handed electrons feel the weak ...

2015-10-07: The Speed of Light is NOT About Light

  • 03:56: This tells us that the electromagnetic force holds clues to the fundamental interplay between space, time, and velocity.
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