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Can two different equipotential surfaces intersect each other?

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If two different equipotential surfaces intersected each other, potential would have two different values at the point of intersection. Moreover, there would be two normals on the two surfaces at the point of intersection. That would mean two electric fields in tow different directions at the same point. These situations are absurd. So two different equipotential surface cannot intersect each other.
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