The Details of Charge....

[Crash]

I was wondering what is negative and what is positive in terms of properties of charge, what makes an electron negative.. its it the orientation/spin of the particles that make up an electron? Is it due to the arrangement of Quarks that givees it these properties.... How do these arise, like ...what gives Quarks these properties...

i dont mind if the explaination contains hefty QM, or complex workings but i need to know please

Cheers in advance

[Aeschylus]

It's just a fundamental property of nature.

[Crash]

Care to explain? Im interested to know how this property comes about in nature and the very base of what causes it.

[Severian]

No-one knows. It is one of the many unanswered questions. Each particle has a value which is the charge (it could be zero) but our theories don't say why. (Actually, each particle has a hypercharge, which combined with isospin gives it its charge, but that is just a technicality.)

[Skye]

http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/frameless/chart.html

 

That's a handy chart for the standard model.

[ydoaPs]

standard model answer= that is the way it is

 

string theory answer= the vibrational pattern of the string(s)/brane(s)

[Crash]

Cheers for the response, ill just wait untill i can understand stringtheory good enough