what the hell is electric charge? Like it doesn’t make sense sense to me how protons are positive and electrons are negative like what does that mean?

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what the hell is electric charge? Like it doesn’t make sense sense to me how protons are positive and electrons are negative like what does that mean?

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For the moment we don’t have much more knowledge than “it is what it is”. Electric charge is a property of matter, it can be found in both quarks (the things that make a proton) and leptons (such as electrons).

The defining characteristic of electric charge is how it interacts with other electric charge. Opposites attracting, likes repelling.