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Re: Conferring its nature (was "are normal ...?")

At 7:23 PM -0400 6/30/01, John S. Denker, you wrote about Re:
Conferring its nature (was "are normal ...?"):


At 04:16 PM 6/30/01 -0400, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

Consider two positively charged objects which attract each
other gravitationally. An equilibrium will be established
when attractive and repulsive forces are equal.

Really? How is it that two forces that are initially unequal later become
equal, when both follow the 1/r^2 law?

One object could the usual charged point particle and the
other could be a charged non-conducting ring? Wouldn't THAT satisfy
Ludwik's point?
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