I have a little confusion regarding how "Earth Ground" (as referenced in here) works and I searched around but I haven't had a good explanation. I'm going to take this point by point to kind of wrap my head around this.
1 - My understanding is that the Earth is a very good conductor of electricity.
2 - Also I was under the impression that the Earth acts as an infinite source and/or sink for electrons. Is that correct?
3 - If so, wouldn't that mean that a battery which is connected directly, at its negative terminal, to the Earth, by a wire and not connected to anything else on the other end, wouldn't that battery lose charge immediately since the Earth acting as an infinite sink of electrons be a non-resistive destination for the electrons?
4 - Wouldn't that also mean that if a closed-loop circuit is earth-grounded, and depending on the point which we are grounding, wouldn't it mean we would be interfering with the path the electrons would take since we are introducing a new path with very low resistance?
Sorry if the questions are extremely silly. It's a first step to trying to understand how Earth Grounding protects us.
Many Thanks
1 - My understanding is that the Earth is a very good conductor of electricity.
2 - Also I was under the impression that the Earth acts as an infinite source and/or sink for electrons. Is that correct?
3 - If so, wouldn't that mean that a battery which is connected directly, at its negative terminal, to the Earth, by a wire and not connected to anything else on the other end, wouldn't that battery lose charge immediately since the Earth acting as an infinite sink of electrons be a non-resistive destination for the electrons?
4 - Wouldn't that also mean that if a closed-loop circuit is earth-grounded, and depending on the point which we are grounding, wouldn't it mean we would be interfering with the path the electrons would take since we are introducing a new path with very low resistance?
Sorry if the questions are extremely silly. It's a first step to trying to understand how Earth Grounding protects us.
Many Thanks