[Avodah] water and electricity

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From: David Riceman _driceman at att.net_ (mailto:driceman at att.net) 

<<You are not  bringing the water into existence by opening the faucet.  
But it seems  to me there is no pool of electricity sitting 
there someplace, no puddles of  electricity sitting in the wires.>> [--TK]



>>(a) Where do you think the electrons go?  (b) What about a  circuit with 
a battery? Why isn't a battery a "pool of electricity"?  <<


David Riceman


 
 
>>>>>
I don't know where electrons "go" but I do know that water, even if it  
isn't flowing, is still water, whereas electrons, if they are not flowing, are  
not electricity.  Whatever a battery is -- in truth, it's a very mysterious 
 object (cf. Arthur C. Clarke, "sufficiently advanced technology  
indistinguishable from magic") -- well a battery, I say, does not "hold"  electricity 
the way a plastic bottle holds water.  When the electrons  are not flowing 
there is no actual electricity in the  battery, electricity only comes into 
being when the battery is  attached to something and that something is 
turned on and a circuit is  completed.  I have an idea that we so to speak 
"manufacture" electricity  (but we do not manufacture water) by turning on the 
device that makes the  electrons flow.  (Maybe somebody who actually knows this 
subject can  explain to me what I'm talking about.) :- )




--Toby  Katz
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