Elecrons Exist?
Electrons do everything for us. All our electric gadgets run via the movement of electrons within our wires and within our tiny chips. How were they discovered? Briefest of histories on atomic - sub atomic physics - Democritus of ancient Greece comes up with the idea of the atom - ‘a-tom’ in greek means un-cuttable. That perhaps if you keep cutting something into smaller and smaller bits might you come to a fundamental un-cuttable bit. The smallest Lego. Ben Franklin shows there are two distinct kinds of charge and names them + and - . Actually, he mistakenly thinks there is one kind of charge and if an object has just the right amount it is neutral and if it has too much of it, that’s a + charge and if it is deficient that’s a negative.* He shows through his experiments that rubbing a balloon on your head is not only very entertaining but that the charges were already in the balloon and the rubbing action only separated them. Later, with the invention of the battery, electrical cu...
