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Does the electrical charge ever reach 0 or does it keep getting less and less and for practical purposes, we have to set a cut-off limit and count the boundary
by nobrains 5y ago
Does the electrical charge ever reach 0 or does it keep getting less and less and for practical purposes, we have to set a cut-off limit and count the boundary of the proton from there?
- davrosthedalek 5y agoIn some sense, the extend is infinite -- but the radius is not the "distance to cut-off". It's the root-mean-square average, which makes it finite.
- analog31 5y agoAs we understand it, the extent is infinite. However, isolated charges have a hard time staying isolated. They tend to rearrange the charges around them, so that the net effect of their charge becomes effectively zero if you define a vicinity for other particles. I believe the term for this is "shielding."