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DaTario
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In Coulomb's law the term epsilon zero appears in the denominator and receives the name of permittivity constant [\b]. As it comes from the word permit (allow) then it would seem reasonable, for me at least, to expect that, as epsilon zero increases, the vacuum would be allowing one charge to better "see" the other, and then the force would be greater. But it is the opposite.
Is this name justifiable in some acceptation of this word ?
Is this name justifiable in some acceptation of this word ?