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0 pointsAnimalMuppet2y ago0 comments

But isn't the same thing going on for the proton?

(Of course, absent some good reason, one wouldn't expect the two screenings to exactly balance...)

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> (Of course, absent some good reason, one wouldn't expect the two screenings to exactly balance...)

Charge conservation still applies: vacuum polarization can only modify the apparent charge distribution, not the net value.

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0 pointsAnimalMuppet2y ago0 comments

But isn't the same thing going on for the proton?

(Of course, absent some good reason, one wouldn't expect the two screenings to exactly balance...)

> (Of course, absent some good reason, one wouldn't expect the two screenings to exactly balance...)

Charge conservation still applies: vacuum polarization can only modify the apparent charge distribution, not the net value.

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