Re: Since k varies but not G suggests an Eather


guskz@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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So you're saying instead of applying the total charges in space to the
equation and using "k for space", they are varying "k" instead so as
to include the charges in the medium (as opposed to the charges outside
the medium)?

Whether charges exist ~outside the medium~ or not
does not concern us. If they are absent, their charge is
zero. If they are present, they exist in e+ e- pairs so
their value is zero.

Try to remember that on a grand scale, every positive charge is
canceling out a negative charge. It is not the same a summing
up the mass of all the atoms in the universe.

So the universe has a total charge of zero, but its mass
is non-zero.

Sue...
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