Question

What is the difference between light and electricity ?

Answer 1

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There are a Lot of Difference , but I shall not go that deep....

Anyways, electricity and light are very distinct.

Starting with light, it is a wave and a particle (photon). This might sound like light is two parts in one, but really it is just the one thing: the photon travels through space at a certain wavelength.

The photon is distinct from other matter in that it has no mass as it exists outside of the Higgs field that permeates all of space. You don't really need to know all of that, but in any case there it is.

As for electricity, it is a stream of electrons traveling along a wire, filament, etc. These streams can vary in characterizations described and measured by it's voltage (potential energy) and current (intensity of stream).

It gets interesting when you look at the two together.

A derivative question I'd like to look at and answer is “if a photon needs to be received by the eye to see something, how can electricity be seen if it's a stream of electrons?”

First, you need to understand that an electron has different energy states (the different orbital shells around an atom are the different levels), and when it drops an energy state, it releases a photon of a certain wavelength (which can be calculated based on the energy level, yada yada yada, etc.) And that photon is what allows electricity to be seen.

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