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"Veritasium" (YT) - "The Big Misconception About Electricity" ?

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rfeecs:
Why use an archaic, imprecise term like "electricity"?

What is it supposed to mean?  Electrical charge?  Electric field?

What about magnetism?  Electromagnetic fields?  Are they included in "electricity"?

And let's dispense with the claim that Maxwell's equations don't accurately predict what we measure, or don't include the effects of a dielectric insulator.  Or is mysterious or no one can solve them.

Those claims are utter complete bullshit as we all (with one exception) well know.

OK, I hope I'm done feeding the troll.  :phew:

SiliconWizard:
Electricity is just hugging photons anyway. ::)

aetherist:

--- Quote from: rfeecs on February 15, 2022, 07:11:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: aetherist on February 11, 2022, 09:48:55 pm ---Is this the same IEEE that would not let Heaviside publish in their journal?
Is this the same IEEE that called Heaviside a crackpot when he came up with his equations?
Is this the same IEEE  that conceded that his equations worked when they fixed the telegraphy cable?
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No.  Not the same IEEE.

--- Quote ---It was formed in 1963 from the amalgamation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers.
--- End quote ---

Here's the real story, a nice biography of Heaviside by Bruce Hunt:
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.1788
--- Quote ---The Heaviside brothers thus could hardly have chosen a less opportune moment to call for adding inductance to telephone lines. In April 1887 they completed their joint paper on the subject and prepared to send it off to the Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians. As a post office employee, however, Arthur first had to secure clearance from his superior in the engineering ranks—none other than Preece, who promptly declared the paper worthless and blocked it. Arthur soon acquiesced, but Oliver emphatically did not. Through the summer of 1887 he sent the Electrician caustic letters attacking “the eminent scienticulist,” as he called Preece, but Biggs, though sympathetic, feared a libel suit and declined to publish them. Then in October, Biggs was abruptly removed as editor of the Electrician, a move he later hinted was prompted by his support for Heaviside. The new editor soon cancelled Heaviside’s long-running series of articles, saying he had asked around and found no one who read them.
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Nice story re Heaviside, my hero. I have a bike in the shed -- i should ride it.
I wonder whether people will write my own life story one day. The discoverer of electons had a humble beginning. Born in Germany in 1947.
A poor student -- & physically a runt. Spent 2 years in grade-3.
Failed Latin for Altar-Boys. Flailed by Nuns almost every morning for not being able to remember the Catholic Catechism.
Ejected from the choir koz his voice was too weak (& too squeaky).
Scored 51 & 52 out of 100 for Electricity-1 & Electricity-2, & opted out of Electricity-3 & Electricity-4, & played billiards instead, becoming the local billiards champion.
Fascinated by how a ball with sidespin curved as it rolled along a woollen bedcloth, studied physics, & discovered the cause of the curving.
Fascinated by how there was sometimes a ball'to'ball spark when balls met, making a crackling noise on a radio in the room, He studied radio, & discovered that radio waves were not photons, & photons were not radio waves.
Fascinated by photons, He discovered that photons were the fundamental building blocks of all matter.
He discovered that photons were also the cause of electricity (but not of radio).
He was crucified by Einsteinists who had taken over the IEEE & who had taken over all of the major forums. (to be continued)

aetherist:

--- Quote from: rfeecs on February 15, 2022, 07:11:48 pm ---No.  Not the same IEEE.
It was formed in 1963 from the amalgamation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers.
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Hell's bells. So, we have Electrical Engineers, who refuse to believe the truth that electricity is made by (hugging) photons, amalgamating with Radio Engineers, who believe that radio waves are nothing but photons (when the truth is that radio waves are not photons).
A marriage made in Heaven.
What could possibly go wrong.

TimFox:
You seem to be confusing the contemporary American IEEE (formerly IRE) with the former British IEE (now renamed "IET").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution_of_Electrical_Engineers
Note the first line of the wikipedia article on the IEE:  "Not to be confused with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, I-triple-E)."

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