The Emergence Machine

Electricity

abstract · Physics · Level 10 · E1

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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.

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Emergence definition

Electricity fundamentally involves the motion of charged particles, making motion essential to electrical phenomena, which emerges from the intersection of electromagnetism and charge.

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Wiktionary senses

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Historical origin

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Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

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Neighborhood

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

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Electromagnetism L5 (requires)
    Electricity is a manifestation of electromagnetism, involving electric fields and the motion of charges.
  • Charge L9 (requires)
    Electricity is the flow of charged particles

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