Electricity versus magic

[Caesar dude]

My father was an electronics engineer. So I grew up watching him fix electrical things.

He could wire up plugs and took things apart and made things that were broken become usable again.

He used a thing called an AVO (multimeter) a lot and that would tell him if things were alive or not....I assumed everything was dead till he sorted them or said otherwise....


I listened and watched and learned through the practice of "don't touch!" "don't ask silly questions" "When you're old enough" etc

One of the best moments of my life happened when I was about 14. He was at the top of a ladder with a hacksaw when he cut through a live wire.... I then watched in total astonishment as he flew across the room about ten feet in the air! Whowsa!!! Power! How do I get hold of that!?

I needed to know more about this magical invisible force. So I got me some education at one of them there fancy learning places....and I quickly understood that actually no one really understands this stuff....it's all fancy diagrams and theory...mixed in with a very healthy dose of "don't touch" "don't ask" and "when you're clever enough"

So I went along with that of course...hey I understand how to pass exams man!

But this brings me to my point....we really do not know what we are doing with electricity...and transmission and storage and making stuff work .... we didn't invent this shit ....it was always here and all we've done is find methods to make it work for us.

If I went back in time and was to present an invisible force that would illuminate a dark hallway, would I have been called a magician?

That's what I thought my dad was.

Peace dudes.

[Tripnastic]

I just finished reading "Tesla: Man out of time"

If ever there were a real magician, Tesla was it, and electricity was definitely his wand.

[Caesar dude]

Now don't you dare get me started on Mr. Tesla! The most underrated and ignored magician of our time. His peers were Einstein and Oppenheimer.

That man knew more about quantum physics and ... shit... well ...lost my train of thought there for a minute dude....

Anyhoo...Tesla.. Aum Shinro Kyo (Supreme Truth)...tokyo underground Sarin bods. Those guys own(ed) all of Tesla's copyrights... some stuff about them owning a large portion of land in Australia...seismic bang etc... nothing really investigated etc... hey am I rambling....

I'm sure there's stuff on that interweb thing.... enjoy dude.

Scooby doo stuff dude...needs investigating...

[HnauHnakrapunt]

Yes, I think that would be called magic before IKEA lamps appeared around.