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To: aft_lizard

You’re wrong, too. The electric field coexists with the magnetic field. The two fields are fundamentally and immutably bound. You are confusing current, the flow of electrons, with an electric field. You don’t need movement of a wire to create an electric field. The field already exists. The movement of the wire doesn’t actually “create” electricity in a fundamental sense, rather it is reacting to the presence of an electric field in space and that causes a current to flow in response through the wire.


66 posted on 08/16/2009 1:48:42 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Kirkwood

I didn’t say it was the movement of the wire but the change in the magnetic field, or rather the change in magnetic flux, that creates the current. And yes I was being uber fundamental as you say because indeed it is the changing electric field by the perpindicular force of the magnetic field that is inducing the current.


92 posted on 08/16/2009 5:43:27 PM PDT by aft_lizard (Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
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