[Brent]

Graybeard,

a small volume would become neutral if to equal and opposite charges tried to occupy the same volume at the same time.

The movement of charge results in the neutral volume becoming positive because protons are positive. If protons really are positive and I am correct then the movement of charge to the neutral volume must produce a positive charge. But if we take a closer look, electric charges should flow from negative to positive. If the neutral volume interacts with a positive volume negative charge should move from the neutral to the positive. In the case of a neutral and a negative volume, negative charge should move from negative to neutral. In both cases this must produce a positive charge.

If I look at it from a logical view, lets consider the earth as one big lump of matter. If I connect a DC generator, the positive terminal through a load and then connected to a ground and the negative terminal connected to a seperate ground a distance away. Negative charges will move from the ground through the load the positive terminal, out the negative terminal and back to the ground. Matter seems to accept and give up negative charges with equal ability.

The difference between the propogation of light and matter is that since the neutral volume is not moving at C, the charge that moves into the neutral volume does not induce a charge with direction but instead induces a negative charge in the volumes surrounding the positve volume.
This is the same as the inital explaination. Water is in a pipe. The pipe is holding the water molecules (neg volumes). There is space (charged volumes) between the molecules. This space as a whole is accelerating towards the earth. Locally, to the water molecules, the the space is accelerating towards the molecules. The light has to pass through this space, which causes it's path to curve around the molecules (curved space) making its'path longer.



Nobody, you can have (+1) and (-1) at the same time, just not at the same time and place.