
What Is Electric Current? - Ivor Catt, Electrical Engineer
The DemystifySci Podcast
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Is There a Reluctance to Reimagine Electric Current?
I think there is a reluctance to reimagine very, very fundamental assumptions about what is electric current. Electric current has proven to be very, very useful in its current formulations. It's the idea that something's coming from the battery and going to the light bulb works. That being not right doesn't affect technology. And that's why people are reluctant to reimagine it because it's like, well, why bother? I mean, that's fundamentally a problem with all of science. Everything that is built on the foundation of a functional theory.
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