I really do not consider people who don't know things I know to be stupid, I just assume they've spent their time learning other, possibly more useful things in their life. But you seemed relatively knowledgeable, so it was weird to see you make such an error, which is why I assumed you to be joking, hence why I prefaced my comment the way I did.
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I really do not consider people who don't know things I know to be stupid, I just assume they've spent their time learning other, possibly more useful things in their life. But you seemed relatively knowledgeable, so it was weird to see you make such an error, which is why I assumed you to be joking, hence why I prefaced my comment the way I did.
In truth I was joking but didn't know it was Heisenberg.
around a hydro power plant there is enough back and forth through the ground to corrode steel fence posts.
I suppose there's enough places around the old one at Folsom that some of that could be going on.
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A man walks into a nuclear supplies store and says "I'm really annoyed. I bought this can of Uranium 238 in good faith 4.46 billion years ago, opened it today and it's half empty".
I'm sure that this has been said already: no. AC is wave-like, sounds are waves, sounds captured electronically convert to AC, sounds converted to AC and converted back to acoustic energy via an amplifier and speaker are again waves. Electricity is movement of electrons along/through a conductor and can alternate back and forth (AC) or flow direct (DC). An electron chilling out in one atom of copper in the wiring between your pickup and your volume knob, while it may travel across a few hundred or a few thousand copper atoms, it is unlikely to ever exit your bass to be replaced by electrons that were in your amp.
A neutron goes into a bar. He has a few beers. When he's ready to leave he asks the bartender how much he owes. The bartender says "No charge".
Good talk, 
but I am still going to keep a bucket under all of my electrical outlets just in case.
but I am still going to keep a bucket under all of my electrical outlets just in case.
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An electron traveling down a cable is not like a marble rolling down a tube. It's like shoving a marble into a tube filled with marbles, and having one pop out the other end. It looks like it traveled fast, but really it's a different marble.
It's actually not hard to understand. There's a simple way to think of a metal: Each atom loses one or two electrons, and those electrons are mostly free to wander around, so they behave like a gas in a container.
The gas has a density based on the density of metal atoms, which can be expressed in electrons per cubic meter. If current is flowing, it has a current density in electrons per square meter per second.
The ratio of these numbers has units of meters per second -- the drift velocity.
The gas has a density based on the density of metal atoms, which can be expressed in electrons per cubic meter. If current is flowing, it has a current density in electrons per square meter per second.
The ratio of these numbers has units of meters per second -- the drift velocity.
The electrons wander along the surface of the wire at a leisurely pace. The disturbance in the electrical field charges along at approximately c/2.
Do you mean that you really didn't know, or merely that your certainty was constrained?
