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Topics => Science, Technology, & Medicine => Topic started by: trapeze on July 01, 2011, 10:36:45 PM

Title: Yet Another Example Of "Settled Science" Being Not So Settled After All
Post by: trapeze on July 01, 2011, 10:36:45 PM

LINK (http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/news/a-shocking-new-understanding-of-static-electricity?click=pm_latest)

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Grzybowski admits it's bizarre to find a huge surprise in a topic that has been studied since Greek polymath Thales of Miletus first rubbed amber on wool in 600 B.C., and found it could then attract light objects like feathers. Leading lights such as Nikola Tesla and Michael Faraday have studied the phenomenon, but they too reached the same conclusion. "One assumption common to all these models is that one material was positively charged, and one negatively charged," Grzybowski says. "This is actually not true."