Is electricity weightless?

Question

The understanding is that electricity simply *passes* through a conductor pushing electrons but isn’t mass required to be able to “push”?? And while at it I wonder… Is there evidence of electricity being present in other planets? or in open space? Please ELI5

In: Physics

Answer 1

So mass is just a property of an object, electrons have mass, so technically it is not weightless. What is “pushing” are the different forces, like gravity, or like in an electric current it is the voltage (emf). Electricity itself can be created in different situations, like with the static found in nature (lightning). Electricity can be found all over the universe, from man-made forms (space shuttles) or lightning on other planets (Jupiter).