New data zap views of static electricity - Charges build up due to exchange of material, study...

Science News ^ | June 24th, 2011 | Devin Powell

[UCANSEE2]

(Thank you for the response. I value your questions and arguments, more actually than the bullcrap I am spouting.)

Yes, we know that charges need to balance, but why is that? .... Saying that the ‘positive and negative charges have to balance out’...

I should have said they TRY to balance out.

What exactly is a charge? You can say, ‘well it's what occurs when there is a differential accumulation of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ particles, but how does any particle, electrons, protons, or whatever, have a ‘charge’?

How? Unknown territory, I guess. Why? Because matter doesn't usually achieve a zero balance. Protons, and electrons have a charge because it apparently fits into the design plan where the charge controls the number of a particle that can (bonded/attached/orbiting) other particles like the nucleus.

There is no mathematical formula, to my knowledge, that can explain this.

Well, there is the one that is used to determine how many electrons, protons, etc, can orbit around a nucleus, but it doesn't explain how.

Millikan could do his oil drop experiment (his grandson lived with a previous mentor of mine), and gives us some information about electrons, but we still have no idea what makes them attracted to protons, but repelled by other electrons.

Electromagnetic force, based on electrical charge. Positive charge repels, negative attracts.

And I am sure there is a lot more to it, and much more we don't, and may never, understand.

I may even be completely wrong.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Speaking on behalf of public education: As long as we don’t deny we evolved from apes we’re on solid ground.” <<

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Those that have that desire to believe that they are descended from Apes, are provably not evolved!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon for the link, thanks neverdem for posting the topic.

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[gusopol3]

We’re not alone in our skepticism:

“I must admit, it astounds me how some scientists can be so sure of theories which involve events in the distant past that we cannot measure directly. Yet we measure the entire Earth every day with a variety of satellite instruments, and we are still trying to figure out from that abundance of data how today’s climate system works!”

http://www.drroyspencer.com/

Second article down, “Understanding James Hansen’s View of Our Climate Future,” about the ninth paragraph