Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
So, get rid of the battery -- I mean, *really* get rid of it, disconnect the wires at the battery terminals, and carry it a good distance away from the experiment -- and show the capacitor still charging itself up.
Well, something has to drive the circuit. The whole thing will stop dead otherwise. That would be like expecting a Fleischmann Pons cell work without first doing electrolysis.
- Jed
