Would there exist capacitance if the speed of light....

Kohler1000 · May 2, 2016

...were infinite? In other words: is capacitance a reflex of the finitude of the speed of light? Please elaborate.

Thanks a lot in advance.

mfb · May 2, 2016

You have to modify electromagnetism somehow to get an infinite speed of light. The answer can depend on how you do that. I guess most natural ways to do it would still keep a capacitance, all you need to keep is some attraction between opposite charges.

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