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3.3 Electromagnetic properties of the electron:

        Starting from hypotheses 1 to 4 and C-1 to C-6 corollaries, we may have a first idea of what an electric charge or an electric current is. Figure 2 is an image of this idea in which we may realize that the electric effects of an electron are related to its polar direction and the magnetic effects are related to the equatorial region.

        The existence of two different kinds of electric charges (positive and negative), both associated to a different elementary particle (proton and electron respectively) and generating two different fields (centrifugal and centripetal respectively), allows us to conclude that the electrons (protons) posses two poles ¾ F (for front) and B (for back) ¾ and when they join the constitution of an electric charge they outwardly aim at only one of such poles ¾ say, F. The reason for this direction preference will be understood later in this article.

Figure 3: Chiral symmetry electron-proton (considered so only the electromagnetic properties). The pole F is the pole that, in an electric charge, points outside.

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        The poles of similar protons and electrons in terms of direction are functionally opposed. In other words, the elementary particles of electromagnetism have a classic chiral symmetry (figure 3). Figure 4 supplies a first sketch of what we could call a physical electron, and in it we can also find the representation of a field of a mixed nature. Strictly speaking there is only one physical field: the A electromagnetic field (corollary 2); and this carried out three functions ¾and not just two¾ corresponding to three types of electromagnetic effect. It is possible to associate a secondary field to each of these effects: the x electric effect field, the b magnetic effect field and the t induction field or inductive effects. The term effect field associated to these secondary fields emphasizes the possibility of being noticed through test elements and ¾as a consequence¾ of mensuration. In the previous items we have already mentioned x and b fields, although in an incomplete way and with no intention of defining these fields. Now let us examine ¾in a very general way¾ what the t induction field is.

Figure 4: A first sketch of the physical electron x1 and x2: predominantly electric areas. b: predominantly magnetic area. e: hypothetical electron radius.

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        A neutral body immersed in an A electromagnetic field occasionally plays the role of an electric or magnetic charge, depending of its structure and the field in question; this phenomenon is known since ancient times. The body is electrified or magnetized according to the characteristics of the original field. The induction reveals an accommodation of elementary particles, a phenomenon which is quite similar to what we described as escaping electrons in item 3.1. Here the particles move in obedience to the outer field; in it the electrons fled in obedience to the field other electrons provoked. This escape undoubtedly follows a given direction. How can a polar particle be directed? In order to it would be necessary more than a simple force field. Together with this field there should be necessary a torsion field! And this is the field that keeps the electrons in an electric charge or in an electric current, as shown in Figure 2.