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The electron rest frame you describe here is non inertial. In non inertial frames things happen for no reason other than that the frame is non inertial.Geocentricist said:I'm saying in the electron-frame at time A, their spacing is X. Then, still in the electron-frame, at time B the spacing has increased and is bigger than X. Yet the video provides no explanation for why this happens.
To paraphrase that, we are only dealing with one frame the entire time, the electron rest-frame.
A good example is a centrifugal force. In a rotating reference frame the centrifugal force can be used to explain things, but it has no source or anything. It just is.
Similarly, in your electron frame there is an inertial force, like the centrifugal force, that spreads the electrons apart. That is the reason people generally would not use a non inertial frame without good reason.
This is not an acceptable reason to reject a valid reference. The sign choice is completely arbitrary. Electrons being negative and protons being positive is a convention. Nothing in the physics changes if we choose the opposite convention.Geocentricist said:Unfortunately, your link uses a flow of positive charges and stationary negative charges. The opposite of my diagram, and the videos, so I fear I'm only going to confuse myself even more by trying to read that.
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