Positive and negative electric currents

The Forces of Nature by Kelland Terry, Ph.D.
One summer not long after I graduated from high school, I was surveying near Blanding, Utah. I was following in the foot steps of my dad who by this time had been for several years a resident engineer for the State of Utah. This summer he was in charge of building a road near Escalante, Utah. I was not mentally prepared for the horrible phone call from home telling me that Dad had been electrocuted. A young man who arrived on the job from Salt Lake had been operating an apparatus that took soil samples. The boon associated with his equipment hit an over head electrical line, and Dad made the fatal mistake of trying to knock him free.

The electrons flowing through the electric wire created a strong negative electric current that consisted of elastic strings I refer to as e-electons. The e-electons racing through Dad and the young man’s body caused the electrons in their bodies to move towards the ground they stood on with great velocity. The friction created by the surging electrons caused their temperatures to rise to a lethal level. Even Dad’s glasses melted, and so we must imagine that the proteins in his body congealed much like the white of an egg congeals when cooked.

There are two forces at work. First, the abundant e-electons racing down the wire (negative current) forced Dad’s electrons towards ground because of repulsion forces. Second, when the negative current created reached the earth, it drove the electrons in the ground away from their protons. These protons then sent a positive current (p-electons) back through the wire. The p-electons became bound to the e-electons, and when the two retracted back to their sources, it caused a force of attraction that pulled Dad’s electrons toward the ground.

In a similar manner, when you throw an electric light switch, all the electrons in the wire begin moving forward almost at the same time, even in the tungsten filament that may be a great distance away. When the electrons move through the crowed conditions of the tungsten filament, it causes the filament to heat up and emit light almost instantly even through the electrons move rather slowly through the wire. They don’t need to be moving too fast because the e-electons and p-electons move through the wire with great velocity, and they are responsible for forcing the electrons through the tungsten filament. Till then, be safe and in good health. Kelland—www.vestheory.com