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marcos@lemmy.world 1 day agoYou can push electrons into a capacitor if you don’t connect the other side. A few of them, but you do.
There are electrostatic generators that work by pushing electrons on one side and pulling from the other of some insulator that moves between those two. But you can’t sustain a steady state of only one of those actions.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I think that’s actually a good example for how I see it. If you could push amps, you’d fill the capacitor without having to pull from the other side, but that doesn’t happen, only a tiny amount of current gets in depending on how strong the other side is pulling, which is very little.
In any case this is just mostly about colloquialisms and convention, because neither is an accurate description of the physics behinds it.