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Suppose that you had an electrically charged stick. If you divided the stick in half, each half would have half the original charge. If you split each of these halves, each piece would have a quarter of
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Suppose that you had an electrically charged stick. If you divided the stick in half, each half would have half the original charge. If you split each of these halves, each piece would have a quarter of the original charge. Can you keep on dividing the charge in this manner forever

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Because charge is quantized, the answer is no.

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