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Andrew Cote's avatar

The unit of measurement for electrical current is amps. Power = amps * volts.

Usually outlets are rated for a number of amps. If you go over the amps in an outlet, you trip the circuit breaker. Too many amps and things heat up and metl. Too many volts and sparks will cross the insulation barriers.

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Adam Draper's avatar

A joule is one volt at one amp for one second.

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Adam Draper's avatar

But completely correct I should have also defined amps. and amps is one of the core units. I also didn't really go into why it's interesting. Thanks for the feedback :)

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Mike Annunziata's avatar

“The physics of an industry are always the original creative constraint.” 🙏

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MemeBrains's avatar

And then Queen comes out with The Prophet's Song for a whopping 8 minutes and 21 seconds in 1975 simultaneously with Bohemian Rhapsody at 5:55, really pushing the boundaries of attention spans, twice on a single album. The average song on that album however did indeed remain under the 4min mark, mostly cuz 2x 1min song drops, I wonder if they did that on purpose to keep the average length in market norms or coincidence

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