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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.
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.
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.
Paul again. (2 paragraphs in one letter. Good Eh!)
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