martillo Posted July 12, 2022 Posted July 12, 2022 Here's an extract of a manuscript I developed towards a new theory in Physics which treat the confusing concept of electrical "ground". Hope it could help to clarify some things: Here we must be careful in what Ground means. We should consider first that: No material can have a net negative charge. Negative charges are produced by electrons and they can only exist in the atomic structure attracted by the positive nucleus of the atoms. The maximum number of electrons that any material can have is that which neutralizes the positive charges of the nucleus. More electrons than this can only be free electrons and they would repel each other out of the material. Then any material can only be neutral or positive charged. Our ambient is radiated mainly by the sun and this radiation has a certain spectrum of photons. The sun radiation is vital because it maintains an ambient temperature. At ambient temperature there is an average quantity of photons emitted and received by any material in nature in a dynamical equilibrium. Then the photons’ emission and absorption phenomena are always present and any material has its atoms in a certain average level of energy. Depending on the material and the radiation the electrons can occupy different positions in the atom structure but electrons can also be liberated from the atoms if the atoms absorb photons with enough energy and in this case the materials get a net positive charge. If a certain material is positively charged then it has some positive potential relative to a completely neutral one. It is proposed here that for common metals what we normally intend as “electric ground” is really a positive potential. We can call it the Ground Level.
swansont Posted July 13, 2022 Posted July 13, 2022 ! Moderator Note Advertising your own personal theory in someone else’s thread is a violation of rule 2.5. If you want to discuss this, post a new thread in speculations. Be prepared to defend it, though. “No material can have a net negative charge” is trivially false.
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