: if you disconnect a power cable, where does the electricity that is still in the cable go?
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nowhere, the concept of electricity is the flow of electrons through a conductive material.the moment you disconnect the cable the flow stops.
Electricity is the movement or pressure in the cable.
To electricity, the outside air is a barrier to that pressure (high / infinite resistance).
When you disconnect the power cable from its free-flowing metal cable, and present it only open-air with no other “easy” exit, it just stops flowing. The electricity isn’t a “thing”, it doesn’t need to go anywhere… it’s the movement of power through the cable. That stops when you break the circuit because the air is a barrier.
Electricity doesn’t work like a solid object.
Metal is “open space” to it and it can move through that easily.
Air is “a solid barrier” to it and it basically can’t move through it.
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