Younger Dryas wrote:Are sound and light not both byproducts of electricity?
We really don't know what electricity is because it's invisible, intangible, and imponderable.
Light is simply a certain resonance that when combined with the resonance of objects produces color and heat (motion). We don't see light; we see color. If our eyes could detect the resonance of light, they wouldn't be able to detect the various resonances producing color.
Sonoluminesence: star in a jar. Certain sound frequencies produce light in water. Light on a solor pannel produces electricity, and as stated below, electricity can produce light and sound.
The “motion” of electric fluid passing from cloud to cloud produces thunder and is called lightning. Lightning is the visible resonance (color) produced by the electric fluid “moving” from cloud to cloud; thunder is the sonic resonance (sound). Both are caused by “motion” of the electric fluid in an attempt to become neutral, or equalized. Moving magnets cause electric fluid to flow, and electric fluid flowing through a conductor produce magnetism. Every thing moving within a certain resonate frequency can be detected by our 5 senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, & taste.
1828 Webster's Dictionary: ELECTRIC'ITY, noun The operations of a very subtil fluid, which appears to be diffused through most bodies, remarkable for the rapidity of its motion, and one of the most powerful agents in nature. The name is given to the operations of this fluid, and to the fluid itself. As it exists in bodies, it is denominated a property of those bodies, though it may be a distinct substance, invisible, intangible and imponderable. When an electric body is rubbed with a soft dry substance, as with woolen cloth, silk or fur, it attracts or repels light substances, at a greater or less distance, according to the strength of the electric virtue; and the friction may be continued, or increased, till the electric body will emit sparks or flashes resembling fire, accompanied with a sharp sound. When the electric fluid passes from cloud to cloud, from the clouds to the earth, or from the earth to the clouds, it is called lightning, and produces thunder. Bodies which, when rubbed, exhibit this property, are called electrics or non-conductors. Bodies, which, when excited, do not exhibit this property, as water and metals, are called non-electrics or conductors, as they readily convey electricity from one body to another, at any distance, and such is the rapidity of the electric fluid in motion, that no perceptible space of time is required for its passage to any known distance.
It is doubted by modern philosophers whether electricity is a fluid or material substance. electricity according to Professor Silliman, is a power which causes repulsion and attraction between the masses of bodies under its influence; a power which causes the heterogeneous particles of bodies to separate, thus producing chimical decomposition; one of the causes of magnetism.
My conclusion is that "motion" is the cause of electricity, magnetism, light, and sound.