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The electric and magnetic field, reaching to infinity

I have difficulty’s to accept that the electric and magnetic field components of photons as well as of electrons and the other subatomic particles are extended to infinity. For practical use that does ...
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Electric/Magnetic Particles

I am given to understand these two things: Electrons are "the result of", "the cause of", and "the" excitation in the electron field. (Sorry, couldn't come up with a more succinct way to sum up all ...
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Electron interaction with the field vs. wave

We often hear that the electromagnetic wave "consists" of real photons while the electromagnetic field "consists" of virtual photons. Granted "virtual" means these particles don't exist other than as ...
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