I have here an excerpt from a play I was sent where the main
character, Peter, meets James Clerk Maxwell in a dream.
Maxwell is not allowed to discuss any knowledge he has
gained after his death.
I have changed the script slightly by changing the main
character's name and replacing protons and electrons with
materons (positronium ash).
Since most, if not all, Vortexians know vastly more about
capacitors and stuff than I do, I would be interested in any
Vortexian critique on the argument Peter presents to Maxwell.
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Peter: Now, let us attach a wire from one electrode of a
fresh battery to a metal plate and a second wire from
the other electrode to a parallel metal plate.
Electrons will build up on the plate attached to the
negative electrode and be removed from the other
plate, until the voltage across the plates is 1.5
volts. The parallel plates are a form of capacitor.
A capacitor stores electricity. If we fill the space
between the plates with a material, we will find that
the capacitor will store more electricity, at the
same voltage.
The relative dielectric constant of a material is
defined as the ratio of the amount of electricity (or
number of electrons) stored by a capacitor when filled
with the material to the amount stored when it is
filled with vacuum.
A capacitor is believed to work by the following
mechanism: The extra electrons on the negative plate
of the capacitor repel negative charges in the
material, while the net positive charges in the other
plate of the capacitor attract negative charges in the
material. This results in an electrical distortion in
the material that tends to reduce the voltage across
the capacitor and permit more electrons to flow from
the negative electrode of the battery to the capacitor
and from the positive plate of the capacitor to the
positive electrode of the battery.
For this reason, a capacitor filled with a material
with a relative dielectric constant of two will store
twice as much electricity as a capacitor filled with
vacuum, which, by definition, has a relative
dielectric constant of one.
That vacuum is capable of storing electricity suggests,
to me, that vacuum contains positive and negative
charges. This is expected if the space between the
plates of the capacitor is filled with a matrix of
incipient positrons and electrons (materons - having
neutral charge and neutral mass).
James: Why shouldn't void be able to store electricity?
Peter: Because void contains no charged particles. Wouldn't
you expect air, which contains particles made up of
protons and electrons, to have an infinitely greater
dielectric constant than void? But the dielectric
constants of vacuum and air are practically the same.
I have been talking about relative dielectric
constant because it is a simpler concept than
dielectric constant itself. Your equations require
that vacuum have definite values of dielectric
constant and permeability . How can void have such
properties?
James: I must plead the Fifth Amendment.
[A gentleman enters at the back of the stage. He stacks
some of the cards to form the base of a pyramid.]
Peter: That is what I expected. Let's discuss the effects of
alternating current on relative dielectric constant.
With normal line current, where the direction of the
current reverses 50 times per second, the dielectric
constant of most materials is the same as with direct
current, where the direction of the current does not
change.
This is true even at frequencies as high as a billion
cycles per second. As the frequency is increased
further, many of the effects that contribute to
dielectric constant (for example the movement of
atoms or ions) are too slow to respond, due to
inertia. This causes the dielectric constants of
materials to decrease dramatically . At the much
higher light frequencies, only electrons/positrons
have low enough inertia to respond. I consider the
observation that the dielectric constant of vacuum
does not change with frequency as further evidence of
the presence of materons in vacuum.
James: Much of your latest statement includes information
that was not available to me. I don't think that
I can comment...........
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Cheers
Grimer
