Wednesday, November 9, 2016

electrostatics - Gauss's law in a uniform charge distribution extending infinitely in all directions


Let us assume the universe filled with positive charge. About a particular point, all the positive charged particles will be symmetrical. Now consider a sphere of radius $r < \infty$ and apply Gauss law. According to Gauss law the electric flux through the sphere will be some finite value as it contains some positive charge. But by symmetry the electric field through the sphere and hence electric flux will be zero. This is a contradiction.




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