The mating dance between strings

The Forces of Nature by Kelland Terry, Ph.D.
The hundred chicks Dad brought home were soon laying eggs in and around the barnyard. We never kept them cooped up after they became adults. There was one nest that could only be checked for eggs by crawling under the manger where I fed our cow its ration of rolled oats. Dad must have planned for a lot of cows because it was a long manger. Not only that, the nest was partially hidden by another barrier. All in all I had to crawl some 15 feet to get to the nest. It was pretty dark and musty under there. On this day as I approached the nest on my belly, I heard the unmistaken sound of a rattlesnake. I was close enough at this point to spot his flat head and body raised above the nest ready to strike. He wanted the eggs more than I did, so I quickly backed out. In the end we decapitated the snake--that’s life on a farm.
There are few things more ritualistic than two snakes in a mating dance with their bodies entwined from head to tail. Perhaps something like this occurs between strings to form a force of attraction. In the case of the electric force, an e-electon emanating from an electron and a p-electon emanating from a proton meet in space and become much like the snakes with their bodies entwined and their heads directed away from the electrons and protons that created the strings. Thus, e-electons and p-electons meet in a mating dance, and when the elastic strings retract back to their respective sources, the attachment between strings provides a strong source of resistance and the two bodies are pulled towards each other. Voila, you now have a force of attraction between proton and electron. A force of attraction occurs when two strings with the same mass but different composition meet and bond. Till then, be safe and in good health. Kelland—www.vestheory.com