The lines are not hollow with electricity inside them, they are solid through and through. Nor does electricity flow, trickle, or drip. It is not a liquid or a gas subject to the laws of fluid dynamics; it’s a force. We make it—which is already pretty awesome—by breaking electrons free from their atoms (at the power plant) and then allowing these to bump into their next nearest atomic neighbor, dislodging their electrons, and allowing these to bump along to the next. Some metals, at the atomic level, make this process of dislodging electrons from atoms easy, and these are the metals we use to
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