ELECTRIC CHARGE, OPEN SYSTEM

• The electric charge of a charged particle is due to a
  violent exchange of virtual photons between the
  charged particle and the local vacuum VPF
  - photons continually absorbed from the vacuum
  - photons continually radiated back to the vacuum
  - this exchange flux is what electric charge IS.

• In the nucleus, everything is changing into everything,
  so to speak.  It is a furious, VPF-driven cauldron.

• the nucleus is an open, driven system, normally in
  equilibrium with respect to VPF input and output.

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