Could electrostatic charge on a body be analogical to the heat of a heated body?
Man has long sought the answer to the secret of the cause of electrostatics.
Perhaps the answer has been right in front of him all this time. It is well
known that objects that are considered "heated", for example a hot poker, are
known to give off radiation in the Infa-red spectrum. Could it not be that
electrostatic charge is radiation of a lower frequency? There are many
surprising similarities between heat and electrostatics.
Similarities:
• Both electrostatic charge and heat is something that a body can "hold" in
abundant quantities. Both will diminish naturally over time.
• Metals conduct heat and electricity significantly greater than other
materials.
• "Rubbing" two objects together over time will cause the objects to get
"hotter". Rubbing certain objects together will also cause an electrostatic
charge and the longer they are rubbed the greater the charge.
Dissimilarities:
• Heated objects do not seem to attract or repel each other. There may be some
type of interaction but no experiments have been done to this authors knowledge.
The likeness of electrostatic charge and a heated body do bear striking
similarities and while a heated object does not attract or repel(it may infact
exhibit a small force an experiment needs to be done to test this) one can't
help but wonder if it is simply because the frequency of electrostatics may be
much lower. As Sir Issac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell once said it is
unphilosophical to attribute a new phenomena to something completely different
when the same phenomena can be explained by current known facts.