"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
Mahatma Gandhi
The quest here is to present a credible disclosure of the simple theory of exothermic migration of charged particles. Practical implications of such phenomena are being presented too as they reveal themselves. After six years of being ignored, your informant has vaulted into stage two: Ridiculed at last!
A posting onto a scientific forum belabored the migration of charged particles that must befall a Faraday cage in order for the charge to restrict itself to the outer surface. For the case in point, a negatively charged Faraday cage, it was ventured that an electron freed incidental to an ionization could fail to recombine with its erstwhile partner due to being caught up in the same migration process applying to other electrons. For such a case, we can be sure that the positive ion would feel traction to the electrical center of the Faraday cage. From six decades of experience with electronics, I can promise that this would be true, but my ploy was to find out what it is that the experts cannot understand about mutual repulsion! It seemed to work pretty well. The expert physicist came after me, and after a bit of ridicule, stated that the interior has no electric field from the charge on the exterior.
Well, the arrangement of any two electrons in the universe presents a force of repulsion between them, and talk of fields is just gobbeldy gook that at best just rolls right off one’s back. Vague reference to fields is either from something pounded into the heads of young physicists or it was just ginned up to refute a conclusion beyond that scientist’s comprehension. Common sense allows that an electron far enough above the positive ion is indistinguishable from an excess electron for the hosting body. Also, we all give in to B. Franklin’s suggestion that our conventional electric current is a reverse motion of particles of positive charge. Of course the positive ion is pulled toward the center.
No physicists who value their jobs want the political stigma of acknowledging stable exothermic migration of electrical particles. It was found by a nobody, makes fools of them and their alma maters, and would put the kybosh on many a big boondoggle.
