What Is Electricity?

You use it every day, but what exactly is electricity? To understand it, we must go down to the very building blocks of matter itself: the atom. Without getting too complicated (and going down to the level of quantum mechanics), matter is comprised of atoms. Atoms are made up of three basic particles: protons, which are positively-charged particles; electrons, which are negatively-charged particles; and neutrons, which have no charge. An atom has its neutrons and protons clustered together at its center, called the nucleus, while the electrons orbit around the nucleus.…