Re: What creates the Charge?


Aetherist wrote:
> On 26 Jan 2006 10:19:24 -0800, "PD" <TheDraperFamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> >Aetherist wrote:
> >> On 24 Jan 2006 16:10:36 -0800, "ma1ibu"
> >> <vegan16@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > You seem to say that charge is a property of space.
> >>
> >> The medium 'of space', yes. A void cannot have
> >> physical properties...
> >
> > You say this as though it were obvious. It is not.
>
> Actually I said it to be specific... It is rather obvious
> that a 'void', by definition, is 'devoid' of everything.

Then we must be talking about two different things. You seem to be
talking about a philosophical void, which is "devoid of everything"
(including, I would guess, a concept about it). A physical void is
usually meant to meant a volume of space (or spacetime, if you prefer)
that contains no matter. This does not necessitate, however, that it is
devoid of properties -- including properties that may be different than
an adjacent patch of void! This is not surprising, because matter is
not the only thing that bears physical properties (though there are
*some* physical properties that are borne only in matter). I don't know
why you would think that matter is the only thing that can bear
physical properties. Again, this sounds like a philosophical postulate
whose experimental implications can be tested (and which have been).

PD

>
> > It is an unsupported, philosophical assertion. If you want
> > to state it as a postulate, and then probe the implications
> > of that postulate to see if it matches up with reality,
> > then experiment would settle the issue. By the way, it is
> > measurably not the case.
>
> What is measurably not the case? That space is not a void.
> If so, I agree... Physical space in our universe without
> the medium and its physical properties is unthinkable.
> That is not a 'philosophical assertion' it is an observable
> fact.
>
> [Snip of rest...]
>
> Paul Stowe

.

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