nick on Nostr: Maybe think of the charged particles falling like rain, the droplets get wet on top ...

Maybe think of the charged particles falling like rain, the droplets get wet on top then rotate until the charges are at the bottom where they drip off, in the meantime the new top side of the droplet is getting wet and so on.

I wonder if the axes of rotation tend to align in some way?

It takes energy to maintain the electric field as it leaks, so there's no thermodynamic mystery here 🙂