The Emergence Machine

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

Trace. Question. Emerge.

Emergence definition

Electric current is the flow of charge through a conductor, resulting from the movement of charged particles, which is a quantifiable property of particles that generates electric and magnetic fields, enabling interactions between charged particles.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “Current” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “Current”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
current
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL10L9L8L7L2L1L0CurrentChargeParticleServing… intermediate l…ForceFormLifeMassActionChangeMatterMotionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesAgulhas CurrentL11Agulhas Return C…L11Aleutian CurrentL11Antarctic Circum…L11Antilles CurrentL11CurrentL10ChargeL9E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Charge L9 (requires)
    Electric current is the flow of charge, requiring moving charge carriers through a conductor.

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