Electons: elastic strings of the electric force

The Forces of Nature by Kelland Terry, Ph.D.
Shortly before World War II ended, Dad quit being a civil engineer and began to develop the land he and mother had homesteaded. He built miles of fencing to allow cattle and sheep to graze on the property, and he built a reservoir with a team of horses and a scraper, and he built ditches to carry water to garden and trees. One day Dad had a team of horses hitched up to a scraper, and the two of us walked along, pitching rocks on the scraper to be hauled away. He was trying to clear the land to plant alfalfa and fruit trees. For some reason Dad had the team of horses stopped, and he was busily engaged down between scraper and horses while I played nearby. To my horror the horses started forward with Dad trapped between scrapper and horses. For a moment, I thought something I had done was going to kill Dad. Fortunately, he was an agile man, and he jumped out of harms way before the scraper could grind him into the dirt. Now, the amazing part: Instead of chewing me out, he unhitched the scraper and ran the horses in a circle until they were ready to drop. He never did say a word to me.

The horses circling around Dad remind me of the electron circling around a proton. Dad held the horses in check with the reins, and in the same manner, the electron that orbits a proton is held in check by elastic strings. This stops the electron from escaping.

Electrons and protons are an integral part of all atoms. In fact the hydrogen atom is composed entirely of one electron and one proton. The proton is 1836 times more massive than the electron, but the negative electric field created by the electron is exactly equal to the positive electric field created by the proton. They completely neutralize each other; thus, the hydrogen atom is electrically neutral as well as all other atoms if they have not lost an electron.

The negative electric field created by electrons is composed of elastic strings that I call e-electons. The positive electric field created by protons is composed of elastic strings that I call p-electons. When e-electons meet p-electons, a strong mechanical bond forms between them and this holds the electron in orbit. In nature there are an equal number of electrons and protons, and for this reason the earth tends to be electrically neutral. Till then, be safe and in good health. Kelland—www.vestheory.com