Robert B. Leighton Quote

The existence of the positive charge, in some sense, distorts, or creates a "condition" in space, so that when we put the negative charge in, it feels a force. This potentiality for producing a force is called an electric field.


The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Volume 1), Chapter 2-2 (p. 2-4)


The existence of the positive charge, in some sense, distorts, or creates a condition in space, so that when we put the negative charge in, it feels...

The existence of the positive charge, in some sense, distorts, or creates a condition in space, so that when we put the negative charge in, it feels...

The existence of the positive charge, in some sense, distorts, or creates a condition in space, so that when we put the negative charge in, it feels...

The existence of the positive charge, in some sense, distorts, or creates a condition in space, so that when we put the negative charge in, it feels...