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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

If you zoom in really hard into how “electricity” works you find it mostly has to do with electromagnetic fields.

If you zoom in on electromagnetic fields you get quantum mechanics.

If you zoom in on quantum mechanics you find a lot of disagreement, basically the best scientists today still don’t fully understand our observations.

So in essence we still don't really understand electricity.

At best you get physics that describes phenomena like vanderwaals forces describes the magnet force but they don’t explain how to phenomena exist, how those forces form.

Or i am just to stupid to understand the current scientific meta. I have always been dissatisfied with how unrevealing physics was and how much questions it never answered while getting a passing grade though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I thought electricity was just a stream of electrons flowing in one direction like a provoked stampede.

Did Bill Nye lie to me?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes he did. Its the holes. The holes move.

But beyond circuits I, the OC is right. It quickly gets into field theory, where electricity in wires is just a special case.

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