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mickfaraday··on Visualizing Electricity
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mickfaraday··on Visualizing Electricity
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mickfaraday··on Visualizing Electricity
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mickfaraday··on Visualizing Electricity
Yes, the main advantage over those models is that it uses atoms that are essentially shaped and moving as atoms do.

Perhaps the gearbox of your car is a relatable phenomenon for you. The breath mints are shaped like gears lol.

mickfaraday··on Visualizing Electricity
The idea is that transfer of momentum between atoms is a good approximation of current. In that sense, the difference in shell momentum, on average, can be thought of as potential or voltage.

Like the hydraulic analogy, this visualization is to help us understand not an exact movie of what's happening. Math may be better for that level of detail, for now. This visualization uses atoms, which is the main advantage over the hydraulic.

mickfaraday··on Visualizing Electricity
Cool. Thanks for the suggestion- i'll pass it along. You can mute the audio and still read the titles. Same info.

Also, i'm pretty sure those are other distant atoms, not stars.

mickfaraday··on Visualizing Electricity
Momentum transfer is the key idea. Flow is not apparent. Spherical field rotation is actually a decent way to conceive of electron motion: https://www.physics.mcmaster.ca/phys3mm3/notes/whatisspin.pd...
mickfaraday··on Visualizing Electricity
spin for electrons is actually approximated by spherical rotation: https://www.physics.mcmaster.ca/phys3mm3/notes/whatisspin.pd...
mickfaraday··on Visualizing Electricity
Why? Metals are addressed at the end of the video. Metals can be thought of in the same manner except with complex orbitals that host multi-polar contacts with neighboring atoms.
mickfaraday··on Could the Earth be an evaporated gas giant planet?
Yes, Michael Lund of CalTech updated the Velikofskian hypothesis: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.12437.pdf
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