What was the difference between Electricity and fire?
To Pan Long, the distinction was clear—heat energy was the work done when molecules moved from a state of high internal energy to one of low internal energy, while electrical energy was the work done when electrons moved from a state of high Electricity potential to one of low Electricity potential. They worked through different media and by different means, so naturally, the effects they produced were different.
In the world of his previous life, efficient conversion of heat into Electricity had already been achieved, ending the steam age that had lasted for centuries since the First Industrial Revolution. Power plants no longer had to boil water.
But heat energy and electrical energy still required specific means to convert one into the other. They were not the same.
To Bi Lingkong, however, lightning and fire were both forms of the "motion" of all things in heaven and earth.
"Motion" took countless forms, and its results naturally differed. But in the end, it was all simply "motion."
She remembered Wen Chao once saying that everything in the world, when traced to its roots, was merely a different kind of "motion." Tangible things, intangible things, thoughts and spirit... everything was nothing more than "motion."
Zhao Sheng had sneered at that. "Humanities students always have such half-baked ways of understanding things. It's as if they'll lie awake at night unless they find a root cause for everything in the world."
Wen Chao had fired back, "Are you questioning the mass-energy equivalence equation?"
"Oh, give it a rest. You're a scrub who doesn't even know calculus. What are you doing spouting off about the mass-energy equivalence equation? Do you even know where that equation came from?"
"You say that like you know calculus so well. Go