Section 3.6 — Electricity: Etheron Flow & Storage (rev v2.7)
Electricity Defined
Electricity is the entrainment of etherons into motion. It is not the drift of charged particles, but the organization of etherons into coherent streams that can be stored, guided, and circulated.
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Static Electricity
When etherons are held in place, they accumulate as localized density in influence fields. Capacitors, insulators, or charged surfaces corral etherons into storage. This state reaches saturation: once the field is full, no more etherons can be held without leakage. Static electricity is coherence stored, potential waiting for release.
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Current Electricity
When etherons are allowed to circulate in closed loops, storage becomes flow. Circuits provide paths where etherons can move continuously, each pass sustaining coherence until it is transferred, dissipated, or radiated as light, heat, or work. Persistence in flow comes not from static accumulation, but from closure — the repeating loop that keeps rhythm alive.
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Why Loops Are Necessary
An open wire can hold a charge, but flow halts once saturation is reached. Only a closed loop balances suction and drag, allowing etherons to move without collapse. Loops turn stored potential into sustained motion.
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Components as Etheron Managers
- Resistors: Sharp bends in the channel where etherons encounter pinball dynamics. Each abrupt directional change scatters etherons, reducing travel efficiency and converting ordered flow into heat or light. Resistance is not storage failure but the natural scattering cost of forced redirection — useful when dissipation is the intended outcome.
- Capacitors: High-efficiency storage. Governed by electric (static) field dynamics: as the field fills, etherons settle into ordered density layers. Small fluctuations in the field can bleed coherence away, but within design limits capacitors hold potential with minimal leakage until release.
- Inductors: Circulating storage. Governed by magnetic field dynamics: the magnetic field generated by current resists sudden changes in flow, momentarily storing etherons in looping circulation. When flow is forced to change, the magnetic field collapses or expands, releasing or absorbing etherons to maintain continuity, much like a flywheel absorbing jolts.
- Antennas & Bulbs: Pattern impression units. These devices do not merely leak etherons — they sculpt the outgoing flow into oscillating patterns that match photon rhythms. Antennas impose geometric and temporal modulation on etheron motion, transforming steady flow into alternating fields. This patterned release creates coherent electromagnetic waves, effectively converting the ordered circulation of a circuit into the traveling closures we observe as photons. Bulbs perform a related function at higher decoherence rates, where etherons scatter into broad-spectrum photon output as heat and light.
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Efficiency and Losses
Electricity persists as long as coherence is retained. Resistance, heat, and radiation are etheronic losses that drain coherence from the loop. Capacitors, by coupling strongly to electric fields, can minimize leakage and hold etherons in reserve. Inductors, by coupling to magnetic fields, can buffer transitions in flow. Antennas and bulbs intentionally sacrifice coherence to release photons, making them useful outlets of stored rhythm. Where losses dominate, a constant supply of etherons is required to maintain flow. Where coherence is preserved, less feed is needed and circuits run more efficiently.
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Summary
Electricity is etherons organized into two states: stored coherence in static (electric) fields, and circulating coherence in current loops governed by magnetic fields. Circuits are architectures that manage how etherons are held, moved, or released. Their efficiency is measured by how well they preserve coherence against inevitable losses, and their expressive power lies in how they transform flow into new rhythmic patterns, including light itself.