Electrician here, I've certainly felt electricity, and it sure ain't pleasant.
And those generation alternators must be very confused.
As a non-electrician, I've also felt electricity and can confirm, it is indeed not pleasant.
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You only felt what electricity did to you, not what electricity feels, it probably feels like Rogue from Xmen where when it touches someone it hurts them so it will not be able to experience love so its sad and angry
You did not feel electricity, you felt what it did to your body 🤓
And your heart felt the frequency 🤓🤓 assuming AC.. hope you do your regular ECG 🫶🏻
No no, work around hv and you'll feel electricity even if you're not doing hot work a lot of the time you can feel the inductive fields around you.
Have you ever had a conversation with electricity?!?!?
checkmate, "electricians"
I've sure sworn at it when I've shown up to a call and something's arcing, so yeah kinda.
It depends, with enough A's, you don't notice anything (anymore)
Those pesky pixies do have a penchant for producing pain.
Point properly presented.
Stupidity is a mystery. No one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it. We can see and hear and feel only what stupidity does. We know it makes people say strange things, make poor decisions, and ignore obvious facts. But we cannot say what stupidity is like.
We cannot even say where stupidity comes from. Some say it might stem from ignorance or misinformation. Others think that social influences or emotional bias produce some of it. All everyone knows is that stupidity seems to be everywhere and that there are many ways for it to surface.
Some scientists think that the sun may be the source of most electricity.
I wish most electricity waa from renewable energy
Lots of it is generated by burning biologically sequestered solar energy from hundreds of millions of years ago.
"Ok, so here's the theme for this one: you're in the 1890s and you've just seen your first lightbulb. All you know is it runs on electricity instead of oil, and that some fucking idiot caught some electricity in a jar during a lightning storm. Go!"
In 1890 they had telegraph lines between continents for about 40 years.
There are more pixels than the neurons in the writer's brain
Well, from someone who studied electrical theory in a 'normal' university, the author isn't completely off base in that we know what electricity is but not why electricity is.
to be fair, we don't know why anything is, but that's something for philosophy so ponder, not science where you seek answers
When was this written? Also, it's not entirely untrue to say that we know what electromagnetic force does, but not what causes it. They say it's a 'fundamental force', which is basically way of saying we can't further reduce it to explain in terms of other stuff. We don't know what any of the fundamental forces (electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces) really are - we can only describe their effects on the world with maths ('what they do')
When was this written?
Given it has a (good quality) color photo attached to it, it was definitely published when we already understood the theory of electricity really well, so it doesn't get a pass.
We don’t know what any of the fundamental forces (electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces) really are
I'd argue that for fundamental forces, "what they are" and "what they do" is the same, by definition.
And in any case, mains supply in your home is not just electromagnetic waves vibing around, it's electrons engineered to move through wires in very specific ways, transferring power from a moving magnet or (increasingly) a photon falling on a semiconductor junction, to move another magnet, heat up some metal, or (increasingly) bounce around some electrons between some semiconductor junctions and then emit photons from other semiconductors junctions.
Finally, most of the text is bullshit even if you don't think we know what fundamental forces "are":
No one has ever felt it
You can easily feel electric discharge. Just rub your hair on some wool.
No one has ever heard it
Just be around a thunderstorm. Thunder is the sound of an electric discharge.
We cannot even say where electricity comes from
You can see where the energy that moved the electrons in your wires came from: https://app.electricitymaps.com/
It was written by a complete and utter buffoon, and it can't be redeemed with any amount of handwaving or philosophizing over what it means to "know" or what things "are". Either that or it's satire (which might well be the case).
Given it has a (good quality) color photo attached to it, it was definitely published when we already understood the theory of electricity really well, so it doesn't get a pass.
It's even worse than that. Electric lighting predates the photo camera by several decades
It was apparently first printed in 1976 according to this page I found discussing it.
Are they dense?? Electricity comes from the power outlet. Everyone knows that
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