The secret of electricity that everyone uses.

Where does he come from ~ Where does he go ?
Everyone uses it but hardly anyone talks about it.

Here, everyone can share their experiences and opinions about the most important thing in
civilization, electricity. Experiences with electric shocks and blackouts are also welcome.

 

Without the discovery we would probably never have got this song...and the great bass line!

One time i reached over to a desk lamp to turn it on not realizing it was already powered on and there wasnt a light bulb in it.....quite the shock i tell ya...110 - 120 volts of ZAP !.....survived to tell the tale but my index finger was burned black and blue for a few weeks and fngerpicking on the gee-tar was out of the question

 

the trick is electricity doesn't exist, its simply a difference in potential current, when the universe achieves equilibrium, there will be no electricity. and hence all the frozen pop-tarts will remain frozen..

 

It comes from spinny things mostly, and they spin right round baby right round, as long as you have something like steam or air or something like that to make them spin.

I electrocute myself very often, i don't know if i'm particularly resistant to electricity or there's just no more braincells to fry, but i can lick live wires confidently which is a cool superpower.

where did you come from cotton eye joe?

 

I already had a lot of them.

 

I've been brushing up on my physics lately, so I've had my old textbook, Harris Benson's "University Physics" (revised edition) as toilet reading. It has a lot to say about this subject. I doesn't teach being an electrician however, and I've learnt that the hard way. Just a personal note: when working on something that's possibly hooked up to a high-current mains, keep your other hand in the pocket.

From chapter 31: "Electromagnetic Induction"

Highly recommend it, at the moment I'm going through the sound chapter and rehashing stuff like wave functions and Fourier series.

And umh, I'm listening to a electro DJ set at the moment, that counts right?

 

I learned about electricity twice, once when I put a bobby pin in an electrical socket when I was about 5, and the other time went for some reason I decided I would swap the fuse on my Leslie cabinet in bare feet standing on a concrete floor and it was plugged in.

 

Ive been circuit bending cameras lately, and at times forget to discharge the capacitor for the flash. Big ouch. ive also been shocked by faulty wiring in my GF's apartment. That was scary.

There used to be this machine at disneyland, in the arcade, you would grab these two metal handles, and it would pump electricity through your hands, slowly raising the voltage to see how long you could last. I have no idea how they allowed it, as it legit hurt, and was for little kids lol. Well anyways, i went to disneyland all the time in my teen years. My high school gave us annual passes as part of a fundraiser, you sell enough magazine subscriptions and you get the pass. So my friends and i would sometimes go every day during the summer. Just causing all sorts of chaos. Jumping off the rides, stealing stuff from The Pirate's of the Caribbean ride, getting wasted on various substances, messing with foreign tourists, etc etc etc, just being hooligans. Well, back to electricity. My GF and i found out that you could do the Electricity machine with multiple people, as long as you held hands, the electricity would pass through. We also found that if you each grabbed one of the poles, and then instead of holding hands, you kissed, it worked, and the electricity would meet in the mouth. Not sure if this is allowed here, but one night we took a certain well known raver party d%@g, and just sat there feeding quarters into the machine and making out. Quite the sensation. We got kicked out after 10 minutes or so, as security was not very fond of us sloppily making out in the arcade. Good times. Photo of said machine attached.

I wish they still had it,

 

Also, I own an EV- no, not a Tesla, a little used Spark, paid $6k for it, little fkkr goes like stink for 80 miles or so on a good day, best second vehicle for local trips I've ever owned. Beats motorcycles off the line.
And due to the area I live, it is nuclear powered. Quite literally. Nothing sucks like a coal powered electric car.

 

True story. When I was about 7 I sneaked into my older brother's bedroom and found his electric guitar. He was an electronics engineer and there was all kinds of wires and stuff laying around. I knew it was an electric guitar so I thought, well, it needs to be plugged in. I found a mains plug with two wires coming out of it going nowhere and I twisted the ends onto some parts of the guitar (can't remember what) and plugged it into the mains... Loud bang followed by black smoke pouring from the guitar. I quickly unplugged it and put it back where I found it. He never mentioned it and he wasn't a guitar player so maybe he never even found out I blew it up. I guess that was my first foray into the music business.

 

and the kicker...

the machine wasn't even plugged in and was totally powered by suggestion, the true current of the universe, that passes through us without wires or visible means of transmission.

 

When I was 7 years old, I unscrewed the shade from a table lamp, unscrewed the light bulb, stuck my finger and turned it on.
The stars to the left are what I saw

 

Kind of what @Garamondo Furbish said, but doesn't mean it doesn't exist. But yeah, in order to have electric current you do need to connect two spots with different voltage levels.

It's like a descending water pipeline. The more voltage difference the steeper, The wider the pipeline the higher intensity.

So the famous third (earth) pin of modern plugs makes sure all the plugs have the same high/low voltage pin levels. Otherwise: the stories we've all heard or experienced. I've had a few electric discharges during my life, none of them major.

There's a lot of interesting things about it, but its use boils down to energy source and telecommunications. Almost at least, and the other uses aren't pretty
Well, there're some chemical uses outside energy source, like electrolysis to separate components in a liquid. And the basic magnetic turbine thing

 

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you should try a coal powered vacuum cleaner.. so much soot to keep vacuuming back up, its like a moebius strip trying to clean the living room.

 

Long story short

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity

 

electricity is a field, that exerts a force. it probably exists down to the smallest spec of matter and up to the largest suns and blackholes. Sometimes i wonder if the mind is a field that is held in place by the brain, the heart has an electrical field, when that fails we usually die. hence electricity can impede the beating of the heart on at least 2 areas muscular contractions and the field around the heart (which contributes or causes the contractions)

Townsend Brown or T.Townsend Brown as he is sometimes called, felt that the universe deals in equilibirium, yin and yang, push and pull. That there should be a push to counter gravity's pull. there is an interesting book about him.

Thomas Townsend Brown

The Man Who Mastered Gravity

the book is available at better torrents everywhere and of course probably Amazon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Townsend_Brown

Thomas Townsend Brown (March 18, 1905 – October 27, 1985)[1] was an American inventor whose research into odd electrical effects led him to believe he had discovered a type of anti-gravity caused by strong electric fields.

its an odd story, and he presented his work to some leading scientist and it disappeared from public view
the pentagon has admitted, it shut down public access to at least 2 fields of physics after world war II.
meaning any and all research in these areas continues under total classification for defense reasons..

 

when i was around 2 or3, was sticking my fingers on a socket while sitting behind my dads lounge chair. remember what my entire body felt like. and what to me was huge long sparks flying outwards from the socket. luckily my dad was in the chair, heard my screams and pulled me off it as my fingers were stuck like glue. how i wasn't killed being so young i have no idea. the socket had blackened areas on it. oddly it portended a future where a good number of times i should've been dead, lol.

 

I read in past about him. This a condensed story:

Spoiler: Townsend Brown’s Technology of Electrogravitics

In the mid 1920’s Townsend Brown discovered that electric charge and gravitational mass are coupled. He
found that when he charged a capacitor to a high voltage, it had a tendency to move toward its positive pole.
This became known as the Biefeld-Brown effect. His important findings were opposed by conventional minded
physicists of his time.
The Pearl Harbor Demonstration. Around 1953, Brown conducted a demonstration for top brass from the
military. He flew a pair of 3-foot diameter discs around a 50-foot course tethered to a central pole. Energized
with 150,000 volts and emitting ions from their leading edge, they attained speeds of several hundred miles per
hour. The subject was thereafter classified.
Project Winterhaven. Brown submitted a proposal to the Pentagon for the development of a Mach 3 disc shaped
electrogravitic fighter craft. Drawings of its basic design are shown in one of his patents. They are essentially
large-scale versions of his tethered test discs.
Aviation Studies International. They are a think tank that produces intelligence studies for the military. In 1956
they issued a report entitled "Electrogravitics Systems" which called for major government funding to develop
Townsend Brown’s electrogravitics technology and make Project Winterhaven a reality. The report stated that
most of the aerospace was actively researching this antigravity technology. It named companies such as:
Glenn-Martin, Convair, Sperry-Rand, Bell, Sikorsky, Douglas, and Hiller. Other companies who entered the field
included Lockheed and Hughes Aircraft, the latter being regarded by some as the world leader in the field. This
report was initially classified. Dr. Paul LaViolette accidentally discovered it in 1985 when he found it listed in the
Library of Congress card catalog, but the document was missing from their collection. Their staff made a
computer search and found that the only other known copy was located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
LaViolette later obtained it from Wright Patterson through interlibrary loan. It is now published in the book
Electrogravitics Systems, T. Valone (editor)."
Northrop’s Wind Tunnel Tests. In 1968, engineers at the Northrop Corp. performed wind tunnel tests in which
they charged the leading edge of a wing to a high voltage. They were investigating how this technique could be
used beneficially to soften the sonic boom of aircraft. Hence they were performing large-scale tests on Brown’s
electrogravitic concept. Brown’s R&D company had previously made known that sonic boom softening would be
a beneficial side effect of this electrogravitic propulsion technique. Interestingly, Northrop later became the
prime contractor for the B-2 bomber.
The B-2 Bomber. In 1992, black project scientists disclosed to Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine
that the B-2 electrostatically charges its exhaust to a high voltage and also charges the leading edge of its
wing-like body to the opposite polarity. This information led Dr. LaViolette in 1993 to reverse engineer the B-2’s
propulsion system. He proposed that the B-2 is essentially a realization of Townsend Brown’s patented
electrogravitic aircraft. The B-2 is capable of taking off under normal jet propulsion. But when airborne, its
electrogravitic drive may be switched on for added thrust. This system can only be turned on under dry
conditions. If the B-2’s dielectric wing were to become wet, the applied high voltage charge would short out,
which explains why the B-2 is unable to fly in the rain. Brown’s electrogravitic experiments and a field theory
that LaViolette had developed (1985, 1994a) both suggest that the B-2’s high voltage space charge differential
sets up a gravity gradient from fore to aft that assists the craft’s forward movement. LaViolette’s theory
suggests that the aftward movement of charges around the B-2 may contribute an even larger gravitational
thrust effect, an effect also seen in Brown’s electrokinetic experiments.
With electrogravitic drive, the B-2 is able to drastically cut its fuel consumption, possibly even to zero under
high-speed flight conditions. The commercial airline industry could dramatically benefit with this technology,
which would not only substantially increase the miles per gallon fuel efficiency of jet airliners, but would also
permit high-speed flight that would dramatically cut flight time.
The movement of the charges may contribute an even larger thrust effect. The same would apply to the B-2
bomber.

BTW the discs experiment could be validated just submerging them in dielectric oil, it seem strange no one thought about that. If they don't move, then it's crap. If they move (no matter the speed), well...