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Re: The Two Capacitor Problem.
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It doesn't sound crazy to me.
So if space is 'nothing' then the plates 'do' hold the charge (energy).
Space has always troubled people, why else did so many people try to
measure
some of its properties or non-properties (ethereal winds for example).
Dave
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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> To: Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: The Two Capacitor Problem.
> Date: Monday, October 28, 1996 11:25 PM
>
> >From 73041.2215-at-CompuServe.COMMon Oct 28 21:46:10 1996
> Date: 28 Oct 96 11:16:23 EST
> From: JEFFREY WIGGINS <73041.2215-at-CompuServe.COM>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: The Two Capacitor Problem.
>
> Dave, All:
>
> Here follows, for your entertainment, the rantings of a lunatic.
>
> As the dielectric constant of free space (vacuum):
> How can nothing (the vacuum) do something (store energy)?
> It can't.
>
> Therefore, since space has properties, it cannot be nothing.
> (it's an AETHER/or thing!)
>
> This begs the question: What the &*%-at- is space, anyway?!
>
> Flames, brickbats, letterbombs etc. welcome...
>
> Jeffrey (I'm probably nuts, please help me) Wiggins.