I have a different answer... Who says that they are a different field? In fact the magnetic field is really a fiction.
Tell me what particle sees a magnetic field? What is effected by the magnetic component of an EM wave? Charges moving through a magnetic field actually see an electric force not a magnetic one, nothing responds to the magnetic axis and the response depends on the sign of the charge, they see the electric component. The magnetic field is just a persistent illusion of electric fields distorted through motion. I'd say prove me wrong, but this is actually conventional. John On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are not going to like my answer: "Because it is their nature." > > Yeah. Told you. > > It is best understood by studying the Lorentz Force and working your > way from there. I like this site: > > http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html (click on the > bubble to expand) > > but, there's always Wikipedia. > > Now Brian Greene would have me say "Because it is their nature in this > universe." > > T > >
