It’s said that any excess charge inside a conductor will redistribute at it’s surface. Now there are two cases to it:-
1) A neutral conductor placed in an electric field 2) A charged conductor kept in space.
Now what we do to explain this redistribution is, suppose there is a net electric field inside a conductor. Free electrons will move opposite to the external electric field lines and cause a ‘induced electric field’ that will eventually cancel out any net electric field inside the conductor.
But by what law do the charges redistribute at the surface?
To explain it, gauss Law is used.
$$ \Phi = \frac {\text {Charge Inside}}{\epsilon} $$
As we know there can’t be electric field inside a conductor, flux through a Gaussian surface inside the conductor should be zero.
From this line of reasoning,we say charge inside the Gaussian surface should be zero.
But my problem is, value of $\epsilon$ is inifinite for a conductor. So to make flux zero, charge inside doesn’t need to be zero...
Where is this doubt factually/theoretically incorrect?