Subject: VRD - electrical charges, specific mechanics

 What are the specific mechanics of how and why positive and
> >negative charges attract, and then come together?  Or, why do electrical
> >fields operate?
> >
I am a 29 year-old amateur science "fan". I am a soon to be unemployed 
warehouse worker do to downsizing, personal angst.  I have had some 
education in college in Physics and
> >Mathematics, but did not finish my engineering degree. Last night I was
> >reading thru my old textbooks and was wondering how positive and negative
> >charges can "know" where each other are in order to be attracted to one
> >another, and where to come together.  I was wondering this in relation to
> >gravity as well, as I know that no one has yet "seen" a gravitron to prove
> >that theory.  (Or have they?)

> >The concept of an electrical field is one I learned about in physics, of
> >course, however I never really considered much about the "how" of how a
> >field functions.  I am thinking of an analogy in which to compare this
> >kind of attraction mechanism to every day life in order to better
> >comprehend what may be happening.  If I consider myself a point charge,
> >say positive, and I locate with my eyes a nearby negative charge foating
> >around in my backyard overhead, I really want to get to it and/or get it
> >to me.  I happen to have a fishing pole that I am extremely talented in
> >using, and I manage to hook the negative charge in the air while it is
> >moving nearby, and then I reel it in (or reel myself over to it, or both).
> >I think that the atomic descriptions or field concepts neglect the whole
> >area of "how" two charges can "know" the other for what it is, or where it
> >is, or even  how or why they are attracted in the first place.
> >
> >My question is, I suppose, pretty general on this subject and I was
> >wondering what your thoughts were on any of this?  Am I missing or
> >forgetting anything?  Or, at the least, if you could recommend someone
> >else knowledgeable in this area of thinking for me to e-mail or send a
> >letter in order to find out more information, or even any publications or

> >books that might be useful, I would be immensely grateful.  Thank-you.

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