Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and flow of electric charge. Electricity gives a wide variety of well-known effects, such as lightning, static electricity, electromagnetic induction and electric current. In addition, electricity permits the creation and reception of electromagnetic radiation such as radio waves.   .....   Electrical phenomena have been studied since antiquity, though progress in theoretical understanding remained slow until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Even then, practical applications for electricity were few, and it would not be until the late nineteenth century that engineers were able to put it to industrial and residential use. The rapid expansion in electrical technology at this time transformed industry and society. Electricity's extraordinary versatility means it can be put to an almost limitless set of applications which include transport, heating, lighting, communications, and computation. Electrical power is now the backbone of modern industrial society. (Wikipedia - 19 Dec 2016)

In the devolutionary Current Paradigm, what electricity does, how it can be generated, and how it can be used, is well understood - but what electricity actually is remains unknown. In the evolutionary Malta Template electricity arises naturally so it is clear what it actually is. That said, the Template's description is less detailed than it needs to be due to the lack of detail available in the Current Paradigm factbase. Amplifying the description today would require speculation - and speculation is inappropriate in a Darwin Template. Hereafter follows a brief description of the fundamentals of electricity as it currently arises in the Template.


Generating electricity requires: 

When the nuclides are placed in the gravitonstream, the following happens:

The adjacency of the nuclides is important for an electric "current" to be sustainable. Understable nuclides within a gravitonstream absorb gravitons at the northpole and eject them at the southpole. If the nuclides are aligned, and close enough, a chain is formed in which ejected gravitons are absorbed by the next nuclide which in turn ejects its excess into the next nuclide, and so on - a process reinforced by the electrons circling the chemosphere of the nuclides. Thus, a sustained electric current is a mechanically concentrated gravitonstream moving through a string of adjacent nuclides.

The axiality measure of the nuclides is also important. Each type of nuclide has a different degree of axiality, from the highly axial silver and copper down to the much less so mercury and germanium. The axiality of a nuclide is determined by its structure. All nuclides consist of a mix of the two types of nucleons: the centrifugal neutron and the axial proton. The more massive the nuclide, the more nucleons it contains. It is the disposition of the nucleons that determines the axiality of a nuclide. The greater the axiality of a nuclide, the more easily a chain of such nuclides can sustain an electric current.  

Electrons are produced during a nuclide's autostabilisation. Each type of stable nuclide has a specific number of electrons that are part of its structure and which regulate the chemosphere and help concentrate the gravitonstream that is ejected at the southpole. Any electrons produced beyond the specific number are ejected at the southpole with the gravitonstream. The ejected electrons have value in that the absorption of an electron by the next nuclide in the electricity chain provides a highly concentrated feed of mass and energy.  

To sum up:   an electric current will form when sufficient numbers of suitable nuclides form an adjacency chain inside a gravitonstream that has a sufficiently high dynamic mass. If the nuclides are gasbonded, any adjacency is brief. Consequently, any chains that form are randomly constructed and produce results that are inconsistent - witness the erratic and shortlived pathways taken by bolts of lightning. If the nuclides are solidbonded, however, the results can be very consistent and, once the techniques are mastered, very controllable - feed a gravitystream of sufficient dynamic mass into one end of a copper wire and "electricity" cannot help but flow along it.   

The Current Paradigm and the Malta Template fully agree on the facts. There is some disagreement on the structure built around the facts but this is really a matter of two models approaching the same subject from opposite directions. The devolutionary Paradigm looks down upon electrons and photons and has thus far been unable to see any deeper. The evolutionary Template looks upward from the hypothetical graviton and sees a subphotonic Universe that is an intricate web of gravitonstreams within gravitonstreams. The end result is the same for both - lightning bolts flash, dynamos hum, and powerlines sizzle.