• Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    This is interesting cause I wonder if relatively it’d be like shifting every element in the periodic table one to the left, cause who’s to say neutral isn’t our current measurement -1, but the orbitals will remain the same hence the shift

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        11 months ago

        For sure but we have no absolute charge measurements, really for all we know were super positively charged, but so are all our voltometers so everything balances out

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          11 months ago

          No, because we’d be flying apart, or at least our hair would stand up. Negative vs positive are relative, but distance from neutral is not.

          Charge and voltage are slightly different, maybe that’s where you’re caught.