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Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
On 11/07/96 22:25:21 you wrote:
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>>From paulmil-at-ibm-dot-netThu Nov 7 22:22:49 1996
>Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:55:20 GMT
>From: PAUL MILLOTT <paulmil-at-ibm-dot-net>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
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>The vacuum is not the conductor of current. The flow of
>>>>electrons through the vacuum is.
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>Hold on here! If you have a chamber containing electrons then it is a
>chamber containing electrons and NOT a vacuum. A vacuum is only a vacuum
>when there is nothing in it. If you add a wire containing electrons, or
just
>the electrons, into the chamber then the wire, or electron, is a conductor
>and will do the conducting. The vacuum does NOT conduct any current while
it
>remains an empty vacuum.
I think that is a matter of semantics.
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>Paul Millott. (Duh! my brain hurts)
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>>>If the vacuum does not impede the flow of electrons, it sounds like a
pretty
>>>good conductor to me.
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>If it was a vacuum there would be NO ELECTRONS to impede. Only loose
>electrons or little conductors added into the vacuum can conduct, then it
is
>no longer an empty vacuum but a chamber of conductive material.
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>Paul again. (2 paragraphs in one letter. Good Eh!)
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Phil Gantt (pgantt-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com)
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