Capacitors, charge and energy: a question

[Mark Hennessy]

I think it's been explained very well.

For non-zero resistance, it's easy to accept that energy is lost as heat. And it's been shown that the amount of energy lost as heat is the same, irrespective of the value of that resistance - all that varies is the time taken to dissipate that heat. The leap is to accept that as R tends to zero, we can have infinite power dissipation in an infinitely short period of time.

I must thank you, by the way, for starting such an interesting thread

Mark