Quote Originally Posted by Coelho
I didnt say that there wasnt anything flowing.
A wire (or any metal for this matter) has a lot of electrons inside it. The difference is when there is an electric current passing the electrons are moving, and when there is no current the electrons are at rest. But the amount of electrons inside the wire is the same. A battery, a dynamo, or whatever, does not create electrons. It just makes them move.
I remember how the electrons in metal can all move around and don't have to stay with their atoms.

It was said that because they can move around so freely, that's why the electricity (that was made of electrons) can go through it so easily. But now this whole idea that electricity is not actually the electrons... that's so new to me. Wow those old textbooks were wrong as hell! It's not the first thing that proved to be wrong that I was taught in skool and I'm sure it won't be the last!