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paraskevi

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Electrical fields
« on: April 28, 2009, 06:12:38 AM »
Lets say we create an electrical field in the form of a dome on the ground, obviously it cannot be touched by human hands but:

1 If I were to throw a stone through it, would it pass or bounce back?
2 Inside this "dome" will there be any air (oxygen)?
3 If there any other chemicals inside the dome would they escape or be trapped?

Silly questions, but I have my reasons lol

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Re: Electrical fields
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2009, 08:04:18 AM »
No such thing as a "dome shaped" electric field.

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Re: Electrical fields
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2009, 08:37:04 AM »
Couldn't it be controlled?

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Re: Electrical fields
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2009, 11:17:30 AM »
Say it were theoretically possible, (by dome shaped, I understand a "monolayered" dome) I see no reason why the field should affect anything within and outside it.

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Re: Electrical fields
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2009, 05:58:40 PM »
Electric fields and magnetic fields are somewhat similar.  If you take two magnets and try and push opposite poles together, they repel each other, a force strong enough for you to feel even with regular fridge magnets.  Now take those magnets and try to stick them on wood...nothing will happen.  Just as magnets only interact with other magnetic materials, so too do electric fields only "interact" with other charged particles.

So no, your rock would not bounce back off like there were an invisible force field.  If you were to throw charged particles at the field, then their trajectory would be changed.

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