Hi.
Can electromagnetism be considered a force in itself, distinct from electricity, and magnetism, alone, and more than just the mutual interaction of those two?
>>7728022
You're trying to get at the point of friction in a vacuum I assume?
>>7728045
No, I want the/an answer to the question in the OP.
>>7728022
Electricity and magnetism are just two different manifestations of the same thing. That's why they can be linked under electromagnetism.
>>7728022
if you understand general relativity and maxwell's field equations then it becomes quite obvious that there is no distinction between electricity and magnetism, the two forces are in fact the same force simply observed from different referance frames. this is incidentally where the derivation of the speed of light comes from, as well as the famous e = mc^2. electromagnetism is not a distinct phenomenon, it is just a term used to describe the collective phenomena of electricity and magnetism, it is called electromagnetism because neither electricity or magnetism is more valid than the other therefore we call it both
>>7728022
Neither electricity nor magnetism nor gravity are forces.
>>7728061
Well that's where you'd find it; a guy in india made a free energy devise that he probably let go of for to little money
Ok.
So the force or energy that produces electromagnetism, or whose some aspects are magnetism, and electricity, is the aether?
>>7728153
Bump
>>7728022
>mutual interaction
magnetism IS electricity, genius
>>7728289
No.
>>7728153
Technically every field which pervades "empty" space and carries waves is the aether. Einstein even explicitly suggested referring to his curved spacetime as a sort of improved aether.
This doesn't actually make previous "aether" concepts not obviously wrong or not worth bringing up as an example of discarded, obsolete science.
