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I hesitate to say this because I dont entirely grasp it at the moment but I think when electrons are travelling parallel to each other they can stop repelling..
by strainer 9y ago
I hesitate to say this because I dont entirely grasp it at the moment but I think when electrons are travelling parallel to each other they can stop repelling... their repulsive force is overtly effected by their relative movement, as well as their position and charge - due to how charges in motion modify and follow the magnetic field.
- tzs 9y agoI believe that if we were just dealing with electrons, the repulsion from the electric field would be much much stronger than the attraction from the magnetic field. We only see a net attraction between current carrying parallel wires because the wires contain both electrons and protons in almost perfect balance, so that the electron/electron repulsions and proton/proton repulsions between the wires are almost perfectly canceled by the electron/proton attractions between the wires, leaving no net electrical attraction or repulsion. That lets the weak magnetic attractions (or repulsions, depending on the directions of the currents) dominate.