The Electron Plumber
What is an Electron?
We know what it does to a part in a trillion. Nobody knows what it is.
I plumb electrons for a living, I just want to know what they ARE
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The labels
Three kinds of video. You’ll always know which one you’re watching.
Historical
Historical record
History, told faithfully from the original papers. All on-camera citations live in sources.bib.
Speculative
Explicit speculation
Proposed physics, not established physics. The current program and its kill criteria are on the Research page.
Practical
Shop practice
Bench work. Failure analysis on circuits rebuilt for the camera, taken down to the physical mechanism.
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About the author
“I’m an EE who calls myself an electron plumber. The channel is one question, pursued honestly: What is an Electron?”
Grant Lindblom
Staff electrical engineer, grid-scale energy storage. Views my own.
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Sources
Every citation made on camera lives in one public BibTeX file.
Corrections
When I get something wrong it goes on a public ledger. Standing corrections for all episodes are tracked in ERRATA.md.
Notes
Learning goals, episode notes, readings, and standing corrections for each episode.
Speculative
I work on a model of the vacuum. It’s unproven. The Research page says what would kill it, and which of its laws already lost.
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Episodes publish on YouTube. Notes and standing corrections publish on GitHub.