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Re: RE:Non-conductors (was IONS)

Ludwig,
Let me just offer some talking points:

1.) To your first question - a system will seek the lowest energy that is
consistent with existing constraints.

2.) I don't think the "ultimate" question is answerable within Maxwellian
electrodynamics. Recall Earnshaw's theorem.

3.) If the charges we supply are not free to move, then we are not
supplying "carriers".

Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (ret)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor