I watched a ted-ed (https://youtu.be/8EUy_82IChY#t=369), and the guy said “nobody knows what it is” so is it true? Do we not know what electricity is?
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We don’t know what electricity is only in the most general sense, in which we don’t really know what anything really is. But in any more practical sense, Electricity is one of the better understood phenomena out there. Electricity is a flow of electrons from one atom to the next, each one trying to replace the absence of the previous electron to keep the charge balance of the atom. Since Maxwell, we developed strong knowledge about how electricity flows, the rules that make it work, how to manipulate it, store its energy, all the practical stuff. But, more importantly, our standard model of physics explains even what the electron is in a more fundamental level, and quantum mechanics can explain even more of its behavior. A lot of our more modern technology, especially computers, is derived from that knowledge of electricity.
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