| ▲ | qsera 3 days ago |
| Those are the specific inventions. |
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| ▲ | addaon 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Those are the specific inventions. In what way is electricity an invention? Electricity is a physical phenomenon. Various machines for doing work with electrical energy, storing electrical energy, converting other types of energy to electrical energy, etc. are certainly inventions... Heck, rubbing an amber rod with a fur is an invention. The static charge transferred is not. |
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| ▲ | qsera 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Invention, discovery..does not matter. There was a point in time when humanity was oblivious to the phenomenon and then there was a point when we were not and we could generate and use it. | | |
| ▲ | brookst 2 days ago | parent [-] | | This is so false. Try doing the research to back up your risible claim. Tell me the date when humanity went from oblivious to electricity to generating and using it. | | |
| ▲ | qsera 2 days ago | parent [-] | | What exactly is false? | | |
| ▲ | brookst a day ago | parent [-] | | It is false to claim that there was a moment when electricity went from unknown and opaque to understood and producible. That “moment” was thousands of years and all incremental. | | |
| ▲ | qsera 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I didn't make no such claims. I claimed that these "incremental" progress was not about simply doing more of the same stuff aka scaling. |
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| ▲ | brookst 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Great. So when you say electricity, do you mean the batteries of 600BCE and the precursors before them? |
