Timeline for Could an Electrically Charged Sphere maintain an Atmosphere, and Oceans?
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| Jul 9, 2020 at 18:26 | comment | added | AlexP | "Anything with the same electric charge to mass ratio as the sphere": doesn't the question say that the mass of the sphere is negligible? If by "oceans" you mean actual oceans of actual water, their mass is most definitely not negligible. To have the same ratio of charge to mass the oceans would have to have a very very large charge, dwarfing the charge of the sphere. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 16:50 | comment | added | Anders Gustafson | @notovny When I say that it has about as much electric charge as Earth has mass, what I mean is that anything with the same electric charge to mass ratio as the sphere, at the same distance from the center of the sphere as the radius of Earth, when thrown not on the surface of the sphere, will accelerate towards or away from the sphere at about the same rate as an object in free fall would accelerate towards the Earth. Comparing Electric Charge to Mass is more like comparing distances in space to distances in time. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 16:35 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 16:20 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | The nature of charge is that it's a surface effect, electrons (- charge) repel each-other so they distribute themselves as far away as possible (around the outside of an object), the same goes for holes (+ charges) see: static electricity - energies involved. Are you looking for local variations that last over time (discharge/insulation issue), or a whole planet with a particular charge? | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 16:03 | comment | added | notovny | Charge and mass use different units that are only tangentially related, and using different unit systems will result in different values. It makes about as much sense to say "as much electric charge as the earth has mass" as it does 'A light as bright as this car is fast." | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 15:56 | history | asked | Anders Gustafson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |