>>
>>> I do not need to google it. I worked with it for the last ten years,
>>>and if your google skills were good enough, you would find that I posted
>>>about it here a couple years ago. I think I even included a link to the
>>>plotted graph.
>>
>>Oh. Your statement that "Vacuum is NOT an insulator" led me to think
>>that you consider vacuum to be not an insulator.
>>
>>Thanks for clearing that up.
>>
>
> Vacuum is a GAP. If you had ever used a glass encapsulated "spark gap"
>device, you would know that. They are selected by the voltage at which
>the designer want them to arc over at. They are constructed by the width
>of the GAP between the two points inside the high vacuum glass
>encapsulation.
>
> If it were an insulator, that would infer a physical presence, and upon
>the very first breach of said presence, the media would no longer be able
>to withstand the same pressure that it did before the breach.
>
> A vacuum GAP acts as an insulator would, inasmuch as a requisite
>pressure is required to breach said gap. Were it not for
>micro-metallization of said vacuum "space" that pressure value would
>always be the same.
>
> Just so you don't get all stupid like the rocktard does, the term
>"pressure" refers to voltage.
Can you name any that have a vacuum and not an inert gas?
- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)