Re: "Charged" capacitor mis-terminology

[William Beaty <billb@eskimo.com>]

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Rauber, Joel              Phys wrote:

> I think it boils down to this: does a flux of something necessarily  involve 
> the flow of a corporal entity through a surface?  I interpret what David 
> says as implying "yes"; and I take the opposite viewpoint.

I agree.  What is an electron but a dandelion-puff of e-field flux, with
who-knows-what at the center.  The "flux lines" may or may not connect to
something in the middle, but they definitely interact with each other
there.  Therefor, look at the flux only, and ignore the electron.  When
our electron proceeds through a plane, the changing e-field patterns which
penetrate the plane are very similar to the e-field patterns in a
parallel-disks capacitor during a current.  When a great number of
electrons flow in the same direction, their cumulative field is even
closer to that between capacitor plates during a current. 

If electrons are merely knots of e-field flux, then there is no
corporeality to electrons at all, and a moving electron is not
fundamentally different than the displacement current between capacitor
plates.


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