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current flowing through their atoms-thin strand of metal. And they found that it flowed smoothly and evenly. So evenly, in fact, that it defied physicists’ standard conception of electricity in metals.
current flowing through their atoms-thin strand of metal. And they found that it flowed smoothly and evenly. So evenly, in fact, that it defied physicists’ standard conception of electricity in metals.
@johnverdon
Good article.
But I flinched at some of the metaphors and analogies.
Thinking of an electron as a thing, a particle, then saying it "disappears", in these metals, is not very helpful. And I am sure that the physicists don't really think in that way. And they certainly don't mathematically describe them that way.
It is fields all the way down.