On Aug 15, 2008, at 7:00 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> It's still relative. Take an electrically neutral object, place it in >> an electrostatic shield. Raise the shield potential to a billion >> volts above your reference point. > > Replace underpants when the lightning bolt fires. >
A billion volts isn't all that much. A few years ago I heard a talk by Roger Blandford in which he analyzed the rotating core of a gravitationally collapsing star as electrical machinery. Electric potentials generated were in the ZV range. Only time I've ever seen the SI prefix "Z" actually used. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
