Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.
The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
There's a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he's a good conductor?
Electricity was a reality in the universe when Moses led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. This is true of all natural laws; they have always existed but only when understood may they be used.
We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
