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Stray Electron:

--- Quote from: madires on March 02, 2021, 01:53:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: penfold on March 01, 2021, 04:35:44 pm ---Would a change in terminology make it better? We could have "a flow of current caused by a floundering of electrons"

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ADHD electrons? ;D

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   I saw what you did there!

Berni:

--- Quote from: Terry Bites on March 02, 2021, 01:28:58 pm ---Thinking of the electron as a particle is another poor analogy. It's a particular disturbance in a system of fields.
Is your anode getting heavier?

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But why would we talk about an disturbance in an electric field? That electric field is just a large scale manifestation of the effects caused by quantum electrodynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics

Basically you can keep digging deeper and deeper with this, so far the deepest depth for this is QED. Its the same as we thought atoms are the smallest building block. Then we figured out how to bust the atom open and find those protons and neutrons inside. Suddenly those ware the fundamental particles. But then we figured out how to punch those protons so hard that they break into even smaller more fundamental particles. But the way an atom behaves is still valid, even if we found out its actually made up from smaller particles that are made up of even smaller particles. We don't have to throw chemistry out the window because of it.

JohnnyMalaria:

--- Quote from: Berni on March 02, 2021, 02:12:25 pm ---Basically you can keep digging deeper and deeper with this, so far the deepest depth for this is QED.

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The Unified Field Theory is even more fundamental.

penfold:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 02, 2021, 02:12:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: madires on March 02, 2021, 01:53:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: penfold on March 01, 2021, 04:35:44 pm ---Would a change in terminology make it better? We could have "a flow of current caused by a floundering of electrons"

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ADHD electrons? ;D

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   I saw what you did there!

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So there we go, it defines their two states of "lots of movement, very little of it in the intended direction" and "nothing but direction although sometimes in an unexpected direction" (apologies Stray Electron if it appropriates your username)

ledtester:
Are you concerned that it's not the same electron that skips from atom to atom?

Problem solved:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe



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