Text: Voltage and potential are often confused in the electrostatic case, or thought of as "composed of the same thing." Therefore, voltage is regarded as "potential drop." Rigorously, the potential is the intensity of the virtual particle flux at a single point - whæther or not there is any mass at the point - and both the pressure and the point itself are spatiotemporal (4-dimensional), not spatial (3-dimensional) as presently assumed. Voltage represents the spatial intersection of the difference in the potential between two separated spatial points, and always implies at least a miniscule flow of mass current (that is what makes it spatial!). "Voltage" is spatial and depends upon the presence of observable mass flow, while scalar electrostatic potential is spatiotemporal and depends upon the absence of observable mass flow. The two are not even of the same dimensionality.

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