My notes from Electric Universe by David Bodani
6 quintillion electrons pass in a second = 1 amp (6,000,000,000,000,000,000) Andre-marie Ampere (with acute and other French marks)
Alessandro Volta made batteries but really did not understand how they worked. Volts are the force that push the electrons along – a volt is how strong the pushing force is of the invisible electric field (Faraday)
James Watt – invented horsepower to sell his machines to miners. A horse can lug a 500lb weight steadily/ A single watt was described at 1/750th of a single horsepower, so a 750watt speaker system uses the energy of one horse. A watt simply ‘measures the power the pushing volts and the scurrying amps provide”
This book has a good description of how nerves work – . Nerves cannot act like copper wires – with electrons because they are wet. They therefore need to be powered up from the sides, getting regular boosts. Sodium ions carry the electric charge along the axons by bursting through the membranes. Booster sodium moves the charge along to the next section of the nerve in a chain reaction. 80% of the energy used in the brain is spent on repairing this sodium move and getting the axons ready for the next message – keeping the electrified sodium on the outside is energy consuming, as is taking it back out after . Sodium and potassium are ideal atoms for this as they lose their outer electrons so easily and happily become charged – tens of thousands of them are stored behind the axons membranes waiting to burst through the wall. Drugs like adrenalin, Prozac etc can act on these compounds to speed them up or slow them down– filling the docking stations for example. Anesthetics work by slowing down the sodium pumps. Wow it’s complex
From “Electric Universe” - -David Bodani
6 quintillion electrons pass in a second = 1 amp (6,000,000,000,000,000,000) Andre-marie Ampere (with acute and other French marks)
Alessandro Volta made batteries but really did not understand how they worked. Volts are the force that push the electrons along – a volt is how strong the pushing force is of the invisible electric field (Faraday)
James Watt – invented horsepower to sell his machines to miners. A horse can lug a 500lb weight steadily/ A single watt was described at 1/750th of a single horsepower, so a 750watt speaker system uses the energy of one horse. A watt simply ‘measures the power the pushing volts and the scurrying amps provide”
This book has a good description of how nerves work – . Nerves cannot act like copper wires – with electrons because they are wet. They therefore need to be powered up from the sides, getting regular boosts. Sodium ions carry the electric charge along the axons by bursting through the membranes. Booster sodium moves the charge along to the next section of the nerve in a chain reaction. 80% of the energy used in the brain is spent on repairing this sodium move and getting the axons ready for the next message – keeping the electrified sodium on the outside is energy consuming, as is taking it back out after . Sodium and potassium are ideal atoms for this as they lose their outer electrons so easily and happily become charged – tens of thousands of them are stored behind the axons membranes waiting to burst through the wall. Drugs like adrenalin, Prozac etc can act on these compounds to speed them up or slow them down– filling the docking stations for example. Anesthetics work by slowing down the sodium pumps. Wow it’s complex
From “Electric Universe” - -David Bodani
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