Dave Rogers
Bandaged ice that stampedes inexpensively through
True, the electron shell itself can exert no restoring force to whatever is in it.
So, by Newton's Third Law, whatever is in it can exert no force on the electron shell. You just refuted yourself.
That is because the shell itself generates only a uniform field inside it, with no differentials in field strength. The important point however is that as soon as one introduces a charge inside the shell, the field inside is no longer uniform, and so there is indeed a preferred position.
And now you just contradicted yourself. You admit that the electron shell can exert no restoring force on whatever's in it; you're then claiming that this doen't apply when something's in it. So your bizarre, other-worldly interpretation of the shell theorem is that it only applies to the force between a shell and an object that doesn't exist.
Regarding Newtons third law ; I've only heard of this applied bidirectionally ; so when one is talking about the effect of a charged shell with effects in all inward directions, I wouldn't jump to conclusions.
Newton invented this clever thing called "calculus" to cope with problems like that. You may want to look into it, it's only been around for a few centuries but in general the conclusions people have jumped to tend to be pretty rigorous.
But bidirectionally it would work ; a single point on the shell would experience and equal and opposite reaction to the proton as the (point) proton is experiencing from that point on the shell.
And here you seem to be using your ignorance of the basics of calculus and vector addition to excuse you from having to believe the shell theorem.
I wouldn't appeal to competent physicists any more if I were you. There's quite a few of us on the forum, and we all find your ramblings to be physically absurd and internally contradictory.
Dave
