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Comment by ars

Because charge is quantized, and not splittable.

Once it interacts with something all of it gets "sucked in" to one spot, and the entire electron interacts. The exact place it does that is randomized with varying probability at different spots.

But once a place is "picked" all of the charge goes there.

It's the quantization that is fundamental, and it's the quantization that makes fields look like particles, not the other way around.

parent ars 10 years ago

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