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ELI5: How does electricity actually transfer energy? (kbin.social)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is correct. The water analogy has limitations that are exposed when you start to talk about transmission over longer distances or very small things like computation circuits. Having said that, humans have a hard time understanding this explanation because we don't have senses that even remotely describe electric fields.

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