(19-04-2020, 02:32 PM)Panrock Wrote: P.S. Going wildly off-topic for a moment... consider the Earth as a raindrop. What charge does it possess overall? Relative to what? Does this question indeed mean anything at all? Though I can imagine the Earth might hold a surplus or deficiency of electrons...
Hello Steve, Interesting question that. How to measure any charge to anything else at long distances.
140 million odd miles to Mars.
In your lockdown time you could work out what the charge difference between Mars and Earth
would have to be for a lightening strike to occur between the two planets !
Answers on a raindrop . :-)
