smudge I don't see any paradox and it is quite clear where the energy goes, it goes as heat, possibly followed by phase changes (solid to liquid then an expanding gas). It is only a paradox if you consider the conductors in the circuit to have zero resistance or infinite conductance, and that includes the electrodes in the capacitor and the switch. If you place a resistor into your circuit diagram and do simple analysis it shows clearly where the energy goes. If you don't believe this do an experiment with capacitors charged to high voltage, use heavy gauge wire but have a small length (mm) of fine gauge wire in the circuit. I did many experiments some of which were shown on my bench, https://www.overunityresearch.com/index.php?topic=3994.0I also read countless science papers as well and most came to the same conclusions you have but not all. However in my opinion the viewpoint is superficial at best for various reasons relating to energy specifically. It was these experiments with the two capacitor setup which helped me determine the total energy present in most electrical systems. The problem is that most tend to look at the system as a series of objects. They do not look at what could be happening internally at the atomic level. Here I use infinite element analysis to look at each atom/electron... what it's doing, why it's doing it and what the effect is. For example, once we understand the process of how a linear electron motion transforms into an oscillatory molecular motion (heat) it's not that difficult to avoid the transformation. However most never go that far and tend to generalize everything into basically meaningless terms such as "heat" or "resistance". For example, heat is not a substance or a fluid and it does not flow. Heat is a measure of molecular motion and temperature a measure of the average molecular motion. Should we be averaging and generalizing everything until it makes no sense at all?. It's important to understand that all matter is a fog of different particles moving at high velocity in a perfect vacuum. This is the nature of matter and we should see it and treat it as such. So in fact this simple two capacitor experiment contains many paradoxes and shows there is magnitudes more energy present than most presumed... most are looking in the wrong places. I will revisit some of it in my two capacitor thread. Regards AC
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