Re: Error in Wikipedia article: Faraday's law of induction


"Don Kelly" <dhky@xxxxxxx> napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
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. What becomes important in breakdown (, is not the total voltage to
ground but the high fields in the vicinity of this large charge.

Field are math.
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Again you are wrong.
A field is a region of influence-no more, no less. If you stand in front
of a thermal source, you are influences - thermal field. If you step off a
cliff, you may be terminally influenced by gravity. This influence is
real, not a mathematical abstraction. Mathematics is the simply the most
appropriate language for quantitative and qualitative description of a
given reality.

So we have the two kind of field. Electric field (math one) and the field of
electric charge.
Up to now we have many theories (Faraday, Ampere, Gauss, Weber, Maxwell,
Lorentz, Jefimienko and so on). But we do not know the reality. We do not
know how high is absolute Earth voltage and if in air is excess of electrons
or lack
Do you know it?
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You say it is not possible but it has been found by measurements that
there are regions of positive charge not just different amounts of
negative charges. There is theory backed by experiment that gives at
least one mechanism for this. In addition, there is solid data that some
lightning strokes originate in regions of positive charge. I'll stick
with what is known rather than what you say is not possible.

As I have mentioned early now is a mess in terminology. My proposal is to
use on clouds sketches colors instead of +/-. The same method as in
mountains map. The higher the stronger color. Now we have only the two
"colors" plus and minus. A huge storm cloud has many levels of voltage.
Description with many colors would be easy to understand for all.


My proposal is that you read the available literature, including anything
that you can get that is written by Umans and, as a precurser for this ,
start with a good text dealing with electrostatics. Take note of the
actual recorded information and data that is available. This is all that I
ask of you. It is a lot as some of the factors are not trivial.

When you have done this - and actually know what you are talking about,
come back.

Try understand the nuance of the terminology and next come back. It will be
easy to you. Start from Clive Saunders statement:
"Wordwide thunderstorm activity is responsible for maintaining a weak
negative charge on the Earth's surface and a corresponding positive charge
in the atmosphere."
At a fair weather is current of about 2x10-12 amperes/meter2. Electron
migrate up day after day. What is the result - excess or lack?
You must find the ansfer what exactly means the term "positive charge" in
very sophisticated references.
S*



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