On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 15:44:18 UTC+1, Roger Hayter wrote:
whisky-dave wrote:

On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:33:30 UTC+1, Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp
wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 02:48:57 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave
wrote:

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That would constitute a measurement. The act of doing this would make
the cable live, or dead.

No it would not.




Unless you can prove otherwise :-)


Try it and let us know.

That's not proving otherwise. Connecting any load is in fact making an
observation, whether the load be a DMM or an organic breathing entity.

then define load?, is the insulation around the conductor a load ?
IS the air a load, the only thing that can't be considered a load is a vacuum.

I know of a Mr Maxwell who might have disagreed with you over the
vacuum, depending how long the wire is and how fast the voltage is
changing.

what if two wires were 1 metre apart and had negligible cross sectional area and the force between those wires was 1x10^-7n in a vacuum.


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Roger Hayter