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"This is a company that wants to be the single-source provisioner of both the protons and electrons in your world. It wants to sell you physical books (and othe
by goodside 13y ago
"This is a company that wants to be the single-source provisioner of both the protons and electrons in your world. It wants to sell you physical books (and other physical goods; the protons) as well as electronic books (electrons)."
If your cute metaphor needs explaining, don't use it.
- ape4 13y agoMatter is made of more than protons. That's why some people say atoms and electrons.
- lucozade 13y agoImplying that Amazon have missed the whole neutron market. An opportunity perchance?
- sentenza 13y agoWithout wanting to criticize the article, there is an interesting physics mistake here. Electric current is not actually moving electrons but _movement of electrons_. This means that no physical electrons make the "round trip" in an electrical circuit, but the current propagates via locally moving electrons interacting through electromagnetic force. So indeed, the electrons that Amazon is handling are definitely not identical to the electrons at your end, even in the hypothetical case in which there are no transformers and fibreoptics between you and Amazon.