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Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
Tesla List wrote:
>
> >From lod-at-pacbell-dot-netWed Oct 30 21:29:21 1996
> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 22:20:04 +0000
> From: GE Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
>
> Richard Hull wrote:
>
> > Thus far, no one has measured the magnetic fields predicted from
> > dispalcement currents actually in a dielectric! I've been watchin' this
> > closely.
> >
> > Actually, I have always found the faraday idea of little field lines
> > or fingers of force reaching out into space a bit tedious and sophomoric
> > beyond serving as a simple first learning tool. Yet, I am as hopelessly
> > doomed to use the word as the next guy due to the educational process
> > which molded my concepts and thoughts.
>
> Do you have an alternate model for electric fields of force that is more elegant?
>
> -GL
Greg,
Nope, I just realize, as I get older, the idea I was taught in college
is flawed. Too bad, it seems so elegant and intuitive. That's why we
swallow it in whole form.
I'll leave it to some young pup to upset the apple cart.
Richard Hull, TCBOR