Comment by AnimalMuppet
2 years ago
But isn't the same thing going on for the proton?
(Of course, absent some good reason, one wouldn't expect the two screenings to exactly balance...)
2 years ago
But isn't the same thing going on for the proton?
(Of course, absent some good reason, one wouldn't expect the two screenings to exactly balance...)
> (Of course, absent some good reason, one wouldn't expect the two screenings to exactly balance...)
Charge conservation still applies: vacuum polarization can only modify the apparent charge distribution, not the net value.