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TrickDacy ,

Did you skip 3rd grade (and all other) science class?

atyaz ,

Even if you studied it, the answer boils down to “magic”.

You take these magnets, and move them around these long snakes of metal (because electrons can move easily through metal) and that makes the electrons in the wires move.

Okay, why does moving around a magnet near metal make something inside it move?

Well there’s something we call the “Lorentz force” which basically pushes a magnetic thing in a specific way if you move another magnetic thing around it

But why does that happen?

Magic

TrickDacy ,

Not really though. You can say that about anything if so. If I don’t understand why atoms exist, does that make the universe “magic”?

I mean I get what you’re saying kind of, but understanding the basics of electrical power is not the stuff of sorcerers.

Mchugho ,

It’s all attraction between opposite charge and repulsion for the same charge, even magnetism. Magnetism is just charge in another gauge.

What I mean by this is from our perspective we view a moving charged particle as emitting a magnetic field, but if you were to move along with the particle at the same speed it would be observed as being at rest and emitting an electric field.

atyaz ,

No it’s actually summoning demons

InternetCitizen2 ,

Idk man Jackson’s Classic Electrodynamics left me feeling like a jock in calculus.

Elivey ,

I mean, from this thread it shows people kinda remember stuff from those classes, but are missing a lot. Which is understandable, people left school and didn’t use that information, it doesn’t make you stupid.

But then you think, oh yeah! I remember how to make electricity, I need copper and an iron rock! So you spend all this time trying to manufacture some relatively thin copper wire, iron would probably be a little easier to find, wrap it around and then you’re like… Okay what went wrong? Annnnd you can’t remember you actually needed a magnet and you gotta spin it.

Then do you remember learning how to store it? Connect it to anything useful? Maybe kinda, but extrapolate the first situation to every topic ever and that’s what you’d get, half baked ideas that you don’t really remember the specifics of. And the specifics really actually matter lol.

sharkfucker420 ,
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Business majors

superduperenigma ,

Project manager: “Absolutely the developers can implement it!”

The developers: 😑😑😑

sharkfucker420 ,
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REAL

dontcarebear ,
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Just remember to pack an encyclopedia Britannica and squirrel it away before you Jesus them.

Dopeness ,
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You might want to check out this movie ; Idiocracy.

Comment105 ,

People always think about going to the past for their knowledge power-trip, when going to the future could be even dumber.

jaschen ,

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

superduperenigma ,

Go away, I’m ‘batin’

Papercrane , (edited )

First of all, no one would understand you, but how someone already pointed out, make a spool with copper and spin it. For bonus points, put a iron slab inside the spool

Edit: as someone pointed out you kinda need a magnet

hypertown ,

Plain copper will get you nowhere. Adding iron slab also won’t help. You have to have magnetic field to generate electricity

bloubz ,

Why wouldn’t they understand? People speak other languages than English

DarkDarkHouse ,
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Ever tried Chaucer? And he was only 14th century.

bloubz ,

English has changed a lot (no I’ve not read a lot of poetry in languages other than my own), some others may have changed less. Maybe Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic. Greek has changed but some people know ancient Greek

Swedneck ,
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eh language barriers are generally overstated i think, people with completely unrelated languages develop pidgins within the decade, and if you’re dropped into a place where they speak some complete gibberish like french you’ll still just naturally figure it out given a year or so of being forced to endure it.

Papercrane ,

That is very true, but maybe they would just kill you or think that you are crazy before you would have the chance to actually change mankind

Swedneck ,
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maybe, but frankly i think it’s at least equally likely that they just see you as a blessing from the heavens and frankly get a little too enthusiastic about your knowledge.

Papercrane ,

Ok, I’m in let’s be technology jesus

Mojojojo1993 ,

Something to do with turbines.

Water wheels seem to spin a turbine. Maybe it generated current or something. Similar with windmills? Gyroscope or something.

Solar ? Quite clearly magical and a heretic, likely to burn me at the stake. Steam power pushes steam through A turbine maybe ?

Lightening sky electricity. Get a bunch of metal and kites. Die.

edinbruh ,

Solar are LEDs. But instead of putting electricity into that light comes out, you push the light in to get electricity out.

DarkDarkHouse ,
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Photovoltaic isn’t the only solar. Probably much easier back then to direct mirrors at a kettle to drive a steam turbine.

WarmSoda ,

You’re thinking of steam.
Create enough steam to turn a turbine that turns a magnet wrapped with copper.

Fun fact, nuclear power is just a powerful way to create more steam.

Mojojojo1993 ,

Ah. So turbines are steam. So ,magnets are key. Magic metal

RiderExMachina ,

Spinning an iron bar between another iron bar wrapped with one thin copper piece makes zap light.

It also makes a magnet for convenience.

Mojojojo1993 ,

So magic ? To the burning pile

RiderExMachina ,

Joke’s on you, that’s my fetish

Mojojojo1993 ,

Kinky

VantaBrandon ,

“I don’t know, but let me tell you about how 5G activates the vaccines”

Sivalente ,

If you could find a jeweller and had an understanding of basic electrical systems, you could probably get a rudimentary capacitor and engine going. From there, who knows what you could do. Maybe even lightbulbs.

atyaz ,

Lightbulbs are pretty easy to make if you:

  • Can find a jeweler or blacksmith like you said
  • Can generate a ton of electricity somehow
  • Are okay with the lightbulb lasting no more than 1 second
Sivalente ,

If you could find a way to fill the lightbulb with a noble gas as you insert your filament, i think decent life is reasonable.

atyaz ,

I don’t even know where to get that here never mind in times of yore

Mchugho ,

One way is the fractional evaporation of liquid air until all that’s left are the noble gases. Or chemical extraction.

Ulv ,

You can also use a sacrificial gas that burns off before the filament. Saw it in a youtube video youtu.be/ThBkzEfjVl0?si=gJW8JyD8KM1Y5Ye8

dewritoninja ,

You could fill it with co2 .put an animal bladder on the mouth of a clay bottle where something is fermenting like wine or beer. The yeast will produce a fair ammount of c02 and fill the bladder. Use the bladder to fill the bulb. It wont last long but it will be longer than just air

Zeth0s ,

Potatoes and lemons I was told

OriginalUsername ,

You spin the turbine, duh

Colour_me_triggered ,

Why is he going back to the middle East? It was just as fucked up then as it is now.

Yearly1845 ,

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    starman2112 ,
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    What’s a magnet

    scottywh ,

    Monkey go hurr durr durr

    Arcania85 ,

    Watch the docter stone anime, it’s quite amusing. TL.DW super dude get petrified for like 3000 years and wakes up and re-introduces technology.

    Chailles ,
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    Something that people miss though is that they do hit some roadblocks that if not for some extremely lucky coincidences, they wouldn’t have any way to do it. Specifically for various materials that just so happen to be around them.

    MiddleWeigh ,
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    I’d just be glad to finally return to monke

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
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    You rub cats together Duh

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