Talk:Electricity

"there is a force between these charges that is directly proportional to the magnitude of the charge of the objects and inversely proportional to distance between them."

Is that correct? Should it not rather be " ... and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them."?

The subsequent formula seems unnecessarily awkward.

S.

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Many of the pointers to this page seems to mean electricity in the meaning electrical energy. Perhaps there should be a separate article about electrical energy, with all relevant pointers so directed? -- Egil 07:46 Feb 7, 2003 (UTC)

If I had started this article, I would have made it a disambiguation article with links to "electrical energy", "electrical power", "electric current", "electric charge" and all other electrical phenomena. The present article is about electric charge, so it could perhaps be merged with the article of that name. -- Heron

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Can anyone remember reading a short science fiction story about someone who is granted a wish, and decides that the best way to solve the world's problems is to abolish electricity? Unfortunately he doesn't know that electricity is what holds atoms together. His wish is granted, and the universe falls apart. If I knew the name of this story, I would add a reference to it in this article. - Heron

• Perhaps, Electricity (Sci-fi) if it is long enough.