Questions for those that believe in Electricity

by OnTheWayOut 52 Replies latest jw friends

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  OnTheWayOut

  Hey, I started this thread on a lark. Great that it lumbers on.

  Some of the explanations for electricity make it more difficult to understand.

  I will back off and say this now: I know that something powers my laptop computer and my smartphone. I don't have to understand it to believe the power exists. Whether I get that electrons don't flow like water or that it's a fair analogy to describe the results to a layperson, it doesn't matter.

  Some have to be told this in order to apply it to other things.

  Even as I write this, knowing that leaving off the obvious conclusion will cause people to go both ways: YES, WHAT I BELIEVE IN IS OBVIOUS AND HAS PLENTY OF EVIDENCE. EVOLUTION IS TRUE, EVOLUTION IS FALSE. THE GOD OF CHRISTIANITY EXISTS, THE GOD OF CHRISTIANITY DOESN'T EXIST. ETC. ETC.
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  bohm

  That the proponents of Maxwellism are so confused by the basic definitions in this so-called theory of electricity just goes to show it is obviously a theory in deep crisis.

  Here is a an easy way to disprove Maxwellism: Take a sheet of metal such as tinfoil and shine a flashlight onto it. Does any of the light flow through the metal? No! This simple experiment reveal a fatal flaw of Maxwellism: According to Maxwellism electricity should be able to flow through solid metal, yet light is also electricity. So how come the puny tinfoil sheet can suddenly stop the electricity?
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  bohm

  It is a well-known fact Einstein too rejected Maxwellism. Here is his own words from the opening paragraph of his paper on special relativity:

  It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics—as usually understood at the present time—when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena

  --A. Einstein. (http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/)

  There you go. Einstein too realized Maxwellisms inherently contradictory nature and flat out rejected it. Obviously all the Maxwellisms on this site believe they are smarter than Einstein, lol.