Re: Magnetic lines like these ?

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 09:56 3/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Mar 1998  William Beaty <billb@eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> > ..  Plasma is a conductor. 
>
> Not in the same sense as a metal. Vacuum also "conducts" charged particles
> when an electric field, E, is applied. Electrons do not escape from metal
> unless they can ovecome binding, for example, when a fillament is heated. 
> What is the value of the "work function" for a stream of solar wind in 
> which there are about 10 to 100 atoms per cubic centimeter?
>
> [Ludwik]

How's this then for a free hand innocent composition?

An electric current is a directed movement of electric charge.
Charge carriers comprise electrons and ions in normal contexts,
 though other charged entities may carry on the same function 
( protons, muons, positrons etc.)
 Mobile charge carriers can exist in evacuated spaces, plasmas, 
gases, liquids and solids.

Whatcott