Re: shutdown for shabbat?

Micha Berger wrote:
maxine <weedfam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have to agree with Don on this one: there is a small amount of
arcing that goes on when a mechanical light switch is moved from off
to on or on to off. It is not static, unless you are talking about
the arc from your finger to the switch on a cold, dry winter evening.

This is wild -- now we're determining empirical truths by vote?

No.


I told Shelly that I'm a have an ABD (all but doctorate; didn't complete
my thesis) in EE who taught the subject in college (Polytechnic U). If

Me too! I have an ABD in Physics from U. Lowell (after an MSME from Brooklyn Poly and a BSME from Cooper Union). I walked away from it in '81 during the recession, since I had to feed my family and I serendipitously found my true love in computer programming. I then decided that I was never going to be a Physicist so why waste a year?

he still doesn't want to accept that I know what I'm talking about and
switches do spark, why should votes from people who didn't specialize
in the subject convince him?

But I am convinced. I had only said that I had never seen such a spark and asked for a SCIENTIFIC source (meaning, not an halachik authority which you usually are tempted to give). BTW, you posted you taught it AFTER I made that comment, not before.

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Shelly
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