I've done all of those things. Seen lightning bolts and heard their thunder, have heard the hum of transformers or the whine of the lines themselves and arcing bolts of electricity from broken ones or Tesla coils. I've been electrocuted both from static electricity, and once when I was cleaning lint out from behind my washing machine.
You can see it. You can hear it. And you definitely can feel it. It fuckinf hurts!
...Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
Next week on Stupid Shit Evangelicals Actually Believe: “Men have one fewer rib than women, because Space Dad used one of Adam’s ribs to create Eve. This cannot be disproven because there is no way to see inside a human body.”
What kind of jokebook is that? "No one has ever [...] felt it." - you git, just grab a life wire and hold unto it - the next guy you will be talking to is probably God.
It comes across as someone who dropped out of highschool to become a barefoot pregnant wife, and sometimes hears snippets of science on the TV. "Some people think electricity comes from the sun!" Technically true, but not very accurate.
If we don't know what electricity is or where it comes from... How do we make all those wires splurge a bunch of it into your church's organ where Mrs Abernathy plays the same two tunes every Sunday, eh?
You'd know you'd felt - and probably seen/heard - electricity if you ate a nice big arc of it. Not even counting lightning; I've seen high voltage arc several meters in a nice blinding line that would kill anyone it touched fucking dead. Maybe whoever wrote that nonsense should try it out for themselves. Even 120 from an outlet would do - it'll certainly wake you up in the morning.
It's a "Science" textbook for Christian schools (although probably more often used in Christian home-schools) published by Bob Jones University. I don't remember exactly what grade it's for, although 2nd or 3rd seems about right. I'm only remembering bits about it from seeing this posted elsewhere online. Although, I was one of those home-schooled children of Christian parents and had the 2nd edition of this textbook around 25 years ago when I was in that grade. IIRC it had improved a bit by then, but it was still similarly shallow and had just as much religion sprinkled throughout.
Although, I was one of those home-schooled children of Christian parents<
In my country we do not have home schools, so I am really curious and hope you don't mind the question: How is your education history - when did you get in touch with real science, what did you think about it and did home schooling have an influence on the career you chose?