Darren New nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/12 23:36:
> Mueen Nawaz wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>> Mueen Nawaz wrote:
>>>>     Fair enough. I incorrectly thought the term photon was used only 
>>>> for electromagnetic phenomena.
>>>
>>> Could be. But isn't that kind of what we're talking about? :-)
>>
>>     I use the term electromagnetic only when there's an electric field 
>> coupled to a magnetic one. But I suppose that's merely my idiosyncrasy.
> 
> Probably more like because you actually studied physics. :-)
> 
> What do you call the photons that aren't coupled with both an electric 
> and magnetic field?  Or no field at all, for that matter, such as 
> exchange particles inside molecules?
> 
There are no particles that are not coupled to a field, if at least one. It can 
be electric, magnetic, strong force, weak force, gravity,...
In any molecule, the "exange" particle is the electron.
In a nucleus, you have several of them, some that are extremely heavy, 
contributing to the strong or the weak force. When I say extremely heavy, I mean 
that some are heavier than the whole atom! As strange as it can look.

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Alain
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