Is electricity weightless?

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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

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Electricity is caused by the movement of electrons. Electrons are very light, but they do have mass and therefore, weight.

Further, all energy is equivalent to mass, and even light has”weight” in that it is affected by gravity, as predicted by Einstein in 1911 and proved by Eddington in 1919.

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