how ignorant are you?

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by mrnoodle

I've played a musical instrument of some form or other for more than 25 years, and I can't read music.

Neither could Jimi Hendrix.

Electricity baffles the hell out of me. I will literally call an electrician to wire one light switch. I understand positive and negative much in the same way a monkey understands that you can touch one or the other but not both. I don't understand why, for example, the stove burner does not shock you when you touch it after you turn it on (but before it gets hot). The heat comes from electricity flowing through it, right? I don't understand why the static electricity from touching the doorknob stings but you can touch one of those static electricity generators which will make even the longest hair stand on end but it doesn't hurt. And I don't understand what voltage is. I understand current and resistance and don't know why we need some third thing to make it more complicated. There. I said it. Whew.