--Encarta: "Electrons form electric currents by flowing in a stream and carrying their negative charge with them. All electrical devices, from flashlights to computers, depend on the movement of electrons."--

** J. Ghitis: I posit that it is electric energy what "flows" (hopping along electrons) while flowing electrons are part of electronic phenomena. Electronic phenomena include also those manifested by static and slow moving electrons, so that actually there is no "electronic energy" that contrasts with electric energy, as I wrongly said in our conversation.

Fast electrons, unimpeded by surrounding matter (air), as in the 'cathodic rays,' have a kinetic energy, resulting from the electric energy expelling forcibly the electrons of the metallic cathode. The physical particularities of the electrons allow them to transmit that kinetic energy the way they do. This can be analogized to the peculiar strong heating capabilities of infrared, compared to more energetic, visible waves. Most of "electronic" phenomena are artificial, as is alternating electricity.

The "negative charge" of the electrons (which has been determined) is bothersome. I wonder if electrons just have their basal energy (bE), as I posted in UFTheory: "BASAL ENERGY (bE): is the immanent one in mass (all "particles"); it can not be removed, being perhaps a remnant of the component PVs' spins. It forbids temperature to reach absolute zero and movement to cease, thus perhaps being related to the principle of indeterminacy."

Electric energy is made of quanta, no doubt, yet I've not read about this. An appropriate name could be "electricon." By the way, I insist in the existence of the "thermon," as a quantum of heat. (Curiously, I just read for the first time about "thermion," a name no longer in use, since it was applied to the electrons ejected from the cathode of the vacuum tubes, no longer in use.)

The phonon would be a quantum of "infrathermic" energy, also a manifestation of vibrating electrons.

The photons emitted by electrons "excited" in a peculiar way manifested by allegedly jumping to a higher orbit, are peculiar electric manifestations, which I have posited can do very peculiar things because their energy is associated with PVs, perhaps just one PV. Perhaps a PV is a quantum of mass, deserving to be considered as "primal mass." It is now known that electricity flows in a very "peculiar" way in nanotubes, and one-molecule-wide chain of DNA and similar structures are helical by force of being one-molecule-wide. Therefore, 'peculiarities' are one of the reasons for things being as they are. I was thinking this morning that the proportions of different types of energy generated (not "created," as is sometimes said) in atomic and nuclear bombs vary according to the 'peculiar' place of the explosion. Such as interred, surfaces, and various atmospheric or spatial surroundings. This latter thought is trite, of course, yet is not so trite when applied to microphenomena. **