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[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yeah, but question is, how do you get a magnet in an ancient Greece?

Edit: typo.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago

Ancient meme, but that's why you have to keep a small version of this in your wallet:

https://topatoco.com/products/qw-cheatsheet-print?_pos=2&_psq=time+traVEL&_ss=e&_v=1.0

The guy who put this together ended up writing a full book based on the concept.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

Alr now how do you make this light bulb?

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

Ancient greeks were well aware about electricity, only ignored an practical use of it, apart of religious ones, like copper spears on temple roofs to attract lightnings in a storm, showing the power of Zeus. Means, it was not Franklin the inventor, only the reason for it was different.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 2 points 11 hours ago

How is it directed? Why does that work?

How do you create a battery or generator?

Why is voltage only one-way?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

"We have ἤλεκτρον (elektron), can you show us?"

Amber jewelry

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Nope. We are not keeping the backwards fucking convention if we have the power to go back in time. Electrons are positively charged particles that travel from high charge to low charge. There nice and easy. Engineers are happy. Well we're less unhappy, the students only mostly want to die.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

As always, there's a relevant xkcd

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Thanks internet discussions are the only safe use of time travel

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would have been killed within hours for being a heretic.

Love corrupting the youth

[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

"This glass shines. It does so by guiding extremely tiny kernels (which repel from others) through a sort of 'road' where they pass easier. This road leads to itself only.

There is a place that pushes these kernels away to an area on that road they're pulled towards. When it encounters a sort of barrier, it hits that, and splats like a fruit; that's light."

Or put even easier:

"There's a place that makes tiny kernels. Those kernels are thrown from that place, following a path; when they hit their target, they scatter, giving light."

Edit: replaced tomato with fruit.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago

A light spirit lives in the battery. It reaches out across the wires until it reaches the round window which it uses to show its power.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 20 hours ago

What's a tomato?

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