electricity · electrical
Ask PrometheusA flow of energy that happens when charged parts move through matter in a pattern.
Electricity (noun) means: A flow of energy that happens when charged parts move through matter in a pattern. It emerges from energy, motion, pattern, matter: Energy moves through matter as charged parts flow in a repeated pattern from one place to another. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 6, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The 2021 Texas power grid failure cut electricity to 4.5 million homes during Winter Storm Uri. engineering
- Electric eels generate electricity in their organs to stun prey, producing up to 600 volts. biology
- The Three Gorges Dam in China produces electricity by channeling water through turbines. physics
Emergence
through: Energy moves through matter as charged parts flow in a repeated pattern from one place to another.
- directed energy transfer
- controllable current
- potential difference propagation
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (53 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
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Relations
| enables | socket.electrical | electricity enables the function of a socket |