Gene Fuller wrote:
I forgot that rain drops and antenna wires are identical. The behavior
of two identical capacitors certainly covers all charge transfer phenomena.

You apparently misunderstood what I was saying. I didn't say
the charge on the charged particle and the wire equalized. I
said, after the charge is transferred to a point on the wire
by the particle, the charge on the wire equalizes up and down
the wire.

But I am always ready to learn something new. Given two identical
conductive spheres with unequal charges, please explain the physics
that prohibits those spheres from equalizing their charges
when they are brought into physical contact.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp