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this is the whole description from the book: "With use of coulomb's law for the force as a function of distance, as represented in this figure, we can calculate the amount of work that must be done to bring the two unit charges from an infinite distance apart to the distance 'r' apart." the figure is a diagram illustrating the inversely square law of electrostatic repulsion: force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the charges. The numbers correspond to two 1 stoney charges.

It is found that the work that must be done to bring two unit charges (each with 1 Stoney or 1.054830935 x 10^-5 coulomb) from infinity to the distance 'r' is 1/rJ. Considering that force of attraction is equal to: K x e1 X e2 divided by r^2 K=unit of measurement for electric charge e1= positive charge e2= negative charge r= distance J= Joules And work = force X distance is this implication or whatever assumption of actions needed to bring from infinity meters away between two charges to the distance 'r' apart is 1/rJ, in context the same as what you said? It seems that this is the gap between two charges from infinity to 'r' and the one i fore mentioned is the length of the infinitely parallel lines with the charges.

i can't picture it in my head of how it looks like. I see a front view of it in the book "The Road To Reality" by Dr. Roger Penrose. The picture is a woodcut by M.C Escher called circle limit I. http://math.slu.edu/escher/upload/thumb/e/e5/Circle-limit-I.jpg/200px-Circle-limit-I.jpg So i was thinking how the universe of hyperbolic plane is round and nothing outside of the circle is existent. But i wondered how it would look like from the side or will it be the same as the way i am looking at it right now? Or will it look like a curve with an opening with two lines consisting of it that extends infinitely.

I was reading the book "General Chemistry" by Linus Pauling and i stumbled upon a confusing part where it explains the IS units of coulomb. The book explained Coulomb; "The coulomb is one-ampere second, and the ampere is defined as the current in each of two infinitely long parallel wires 1 meter apart that causes an electromagnetic force of 2 x 10^-7 newton per meter of its length to act on each wire." as quoted from the book. This definition i did not just get from the book, i searched up online and the other sources also said infinitely long parallel lines. I am confused at the "infinitely" long parallel wire part. What is this infinitely long parallel wire? Are infinitely long parallel wires even possible?

I was reading the book "General Chemistry" by Linus Pauling and i stumbled upon a confusing part where it explains the IS units of coulomb. The book explained Coulomb; "The coulomb is one-ampere second, and the ampere is defined as the current in each of two infinitely long parallel wires 1 meter apart that causes an electromagnetic force of 2 x 10^-7 newton per meter of its length to act on each wire." as quoted from the book. This definition i did not just get from the book, i searched up online and the other sources also said infinitely long parallel lines. I am confused at the "infinitely" long parallel wire part. What is this infinitely long parallel wire? Are infinitely long parallel wires even possible?