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by amts 1053 days ago
Electricity/Magnetism isn't understood well enough by modern human monkeys yet. The default representation of electrons as particles gets so ridiculous in AC context. Like, suppose you'd like to transfer N buckets of energy in the form of apples to a monkey zoo. You'd just straight move them from their departure point to their destination point in the zoo. Now if electrons are supposedly just tiny particles of the same type and you'd like to transfer some energy from point A to point B via an AC transmission line, why would you need to toss them to and fro between these points at 50/60Hz frequency in order to deliver to point B instead of just straight passing from A to B? This is ridiculous.

And here's another one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron