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Molecular biology has a lot of interesting concepts, it mostly focuses on chemistry. Electrons, ions, Neutrons, Protrons. This doesn't make sense to people because when they think of chemistry, they think of powders, liquids, gasses, and cool labcoats with awesome safety glasses. They aren't thinking about the composition of a dust particle, liquid drop residue, or the dissipated scent of an odor, scent, or smell.
Studying these objects under a microscope might induce more curiosity. The detail is quite small. The image might be blurry and the experiment might have turned into a conversation on designing a better microscope and defining the correct parameters for its specifications.
Once the pre-requisite equipment build is complete, molecular chemistry might show a series of reactions, if they can be called that, when a hydrogen molecule is introduced to two oxygen molecules. What is the process for the formation of water? How can it be described to the population? Why is it good for us and how does it react within our circulatory sytem and in our bloodstream?
Electricity is not much different. Its often described as a current. It can be measured in amps, watts, volts, strength, and force. It has a velocity. An electric molecule travels around 2000 miles per second down an internet cable or wireless network path. It likely travels at a similar pace inside a circuit board but modern equipment can only measure the total load of electricity inside the circuit. Its difficult to tell how fast individual molecules are traveling.
The electricity should have a composition. What is it made of? how was it formed? what is it affected by? and, how does it affect other objects it interacts with? Does it interact? or does it only react and respond to environmental stimuli?
In either case its made of something and it has to have a composition. Some electricity is yellow, or white, or possibly orange, and there is white or blue electricity. Brown electricity is bad for utility companies, they can lead to no electricity or to electricity that is the color of night that we can't detect or harness.
Overall, electricity is thought to be composed of mostly electrons. It can be contained and requested to travel down a path through capicitators, insulators, conductors, and circuits. Theres even things called transformers that do something to large currents.
All of this is harnessed inside computing equipment, and the electricity flows throughout the computer to allow us to interact with it. It does things for us that we request, and sometimes things that we didn't ask it to do. This is considered bad computing design, when the computer does things on its own without asking. Without knowing what the composition is, its hard to tell if it is right or wrong to confine the electricity like that. Or, to have it do our bidding without much reward for its efforts. If its composition is organic, maybe it just lives in the circuit and has become accustomed to humans.
Electricity is mostly thought to be a composition of electrons. Its hard to imagine who would have came up with an automated electron contraption.