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📣 breck

What other languages exist for talking about electricity?


I've made a new language for electricity. I've found the existing language taught in textbooks a mess full of legacy stuff that often means the opposite of what is actually happening.

In my new lang, everything revolves around electrons.

For example, batteries have a surplus side and a deficit side, and current is the flow of electrons from the surplus side to the deficit side.

It's a work in progress, but I'm close to having a version to share.

Now I'd like to see what prior art exists.

I'm hoping someone has already done this, and I can just use their's and drop mine.

What is out there?


  👤 solardev Accepted Answer ✓
Wouldn't it be more useful to show this with illustrations/animations? It'd be hard to replace all the existing terminologies with your own version, since people need to be able to discuss electricity with other people, and the vocabulary is hundreds of years old by this point. If we can't even get rid of a single confusing unit like the Watt, we probably won't see the whole thing overhauled in our lifetimes...

In terms of analogies, though, at the basic levels in school they'll often teach it as "water like":

https://www.mathsisfun.com/physics/electricity-water-analogy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy