Dude. Relax. No one is being snotty. Furthermore, calling me "boy" could be interpreted in some rather "Let's telephone HR" kinds of ways.
I am making the point that your argument would require one to believe everything is capable of performing this effect, i.e., everything is a metal. Clearly...
I just explained it to you. The accessible energy thermally is in the ballpark of 1/40 of an eV. If you need a reference to compute kT, go grab literally any thermal physics book in the world (I like Reif's). You are claiming a solution predicated on an amount of energy which is orders of...
I think that between your answer and Drakkith, you have illustrated a lot of the heart of the matter for why this occurs spontaneously in a way that wouldn't predict this to happen for every material in the world. Thank you.
No worries on the confusion; I inherently framed the argument in my head predicated on work functions vs. what we are observing spontaneously in the absence of external forces. I completely missed the boat on the problem in not appreciating that it is a surface-driven phenomenon, not something...
I appreciate your response; I find this interesting and helping to get at the heart of the matter.
So the argument is more predicated on surface effects? i.e., the rubbing is "activating" the surface in some sense, making/exploiting defects, such that there is a legit full charge transfer? Your...
I am going to ignore your very rude remarks questioning me and claiming that I am "waiving my hands...". No one here has cited any references, so do not get uppity. Additionally, "Lordy" is not exactly adding anything constructive to the conversation.
kT at room temperature is roughly 1/40 of...
OK, this is more the kind of analysis I am used to in solid-state physics or electrodynamics.
Your comment about "where we are distorting the electron positions slightly, rather than removing them from the atom" makes perfect sense to me. I thought to regard this as a small D (using Griffiths...
I am confused by your reply.
"But getting back to the point, I'm not sure why you think shifting electrons around requires much energy? They're titchy little things, hardly any mass nor charge."
The point of metals vs. insulators is that electrons only flow in a net directionality under very...
If a balloon and a sweater are rubbed together, high-school science teachers like to say "the electrons transferred to the balloon in the form of static electricity." Then, it is often charming to show that two such balloons repel one another "because they have more electrons." Can we unpack...
I am a solid state physicist. I feel bad that I know nothing about global warming (in terms of the details: what experiments have been done, what models exist, key papers, what, if any, real controversy there is).
What resources would be recommended? What papers, books, websites? It is...
Dr. Chinese:
I do not understand your point about particle entanglement. Can you please clarify?
Moreover, your comment is about how you expect our conversation to evolve. Perhaps instead of making a prediction of people you don't know (I could be a total moron, remember, and make very...
JK423:
What you're saying makes logical sense. It's just a bit different than what I had understood the words to mean. Yours is logical, just different...unless I am missing something.
You describe momentum here as something that is well-defined, just having a higher range of possible...
JK423:
This is the crux of the confusion, for me. You are using the dispersion of the momentum to mean something different than what I *think* it means (but I am a novice).
That there is a dispersion in the momentum to me means "fundamental ignorance of the expectation value." It seems like...
1.) What parts of the book do you *not* recommend, for the sake of saving me time, if it can be briefly said without too much of your time?
2.) I respectfully disagree that most people list the postulates the same way. The books I mentioned above do not start with a principle-of-least-action...