Jamie wrote:
In . com,
"The Flavored Coffee Guy" mentions:
Please read the information at the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-po...ental_evidence
This means that if you take a capacitor, and charge it up to it's rated
maximum DC Voltage, and either pinch it in a vise, or hit it directly
with a sledge hammer, it will explode. This excludes electrolytic
capacitors.
I don't see how the two are related, or where one would even arrive at
that conclusion. The article (at least to me anyway) seems to discuss
something that is frankly, unknown. I don't believe scientists actually
understand so-called quantum mechanics (yet).
If you took a mythical huge capacitor with foil plates, charged it to some extreme
high value and then smashed it, yes, the plates would come together forming a
short which may produce sparks.
If the dielectric were made of something like, oh.. gunpowder... you might get
an explosion. :-) (or if the power energy in the capacitor were high enough, you
probably wouldn't even need the gunpowder) this would be more or less... a
firecracker.
Seems to me, several years when I was younger and, maybe not so careful, I
charged an electrolytic with straight-line AC power. The electrolytic
apparently vaporized, creating a pressure which resulted in a small explosion.
So, yea, you can do weird freaky stuff with some capacitors. (I don't recall
what type it is, I only have a vague recollection of doing it along with several
other stupid tricks) I don't believe this would possibly have anything to do
with zero point energy, just a vacuum of common sense. :-)
Jamie
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Okay, okay, the zero point energy was a bull**** line. But, still, if
you charge up a high voltage capacitor 200 watt volts or greater and
put it in a vice, or hit it with a sledge hammer while fully charged
will explode. Just like a bullet mushrooms, the dielectric is
typically plastic, or waxpaper, and when you apply pressure, it just
get thin. Do it fast enough, and boom.