Re: The Devil did it
Posted by Crono on Fri Nov 4th at 2:22am 2005
It still sounds bad.
I understand what you were saying now, but as for the actual post its self, the 'feeling' of it hasn't changed.
It is big, isn't it?

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Re: The Devil did it
Posted by wil5on on Fri Nov 4th at 7:00am 2005
A flow of charge from one point to another, as in lightning, is not a circuit. An electric circuit is a system in which charge carriers (be they electrons, or abscences of electrons) flow in a loop, driven by some source of electromotive force. Since in lightning, charge carriers only go one way (up or down, I dont know) lightning in itself is not a circuit. I'm not sure how the charge gets in the clouds so I dont know, but presumably if you take all that into account theres a circuit in there somewhere, with clouds and earth acting like a giant capacitor.

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