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If you want to get pedantic, you can't "make electricity" either because 'electricity' isn't a defined concept. Usually when people use words such as "make elec
by marshray 7y ago
If you want to get pedantic, you can't "make electricity" either because 'electricity' isn't a defined concept. Usually when people use words such as "make electricity", they actually mean to refer to energy or power transferred using electromagnetic fields interacting with a conductor. But a purely chemical reaction that charges a battery could be said to "make electricity" without even involving that.
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- dreamcompiler 7y agoI was going for a simpler idea: Light is photons, electricity is moving electrons. And yeah, if you're talking about electromagnetic fields we're back to photons again. It just struck me as a sentence that was very misleading to lay people.
- marshray 7y agoIt's only simpler because "electricity is moving electrons" is not a meaningful claim. What is the physical unit of 'electricity'? There's not one, because it's not a thing.