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Re: Capacitor energy experiment



David Rutherford wrote:

Unless I'm mistaken, the experiment you're describing is old hat.
There's nothing new to be discovered doing the experiment your way. If
I'm incorrect in assuming that your way is the same old thing, please
explain to me why it's not.

Just curious. If the described experiment (Kowalski), and the myriad of
others proposed on this thread, all give 1/2 CV^2 for the energy stored in
the capacitor - and then a new, experiment (never before tried) is
proposed that ends up giving twice that amount of energy - what do you now
do?

a) Trash the old theory - because it disagrees with a new experiment -
regardless of the fact that it agrees with thousands of others that have
been independently confirmed by many people? (i.e. if they're "old hat"
experiments they can't be of much value)

b) Question the new experiment to see if the logic is correct or that the
experiment really gives what you think is a true measure of energy in the
capacitor.

Bob at PC