How does Electricity work?

Electricity is made of a bunch of things called electrons. Electrons like to do things. They like to play radios, run refrigerators, and light houses. More recently they are beginning to like cars (ask a physics major for more information the new hybrid electrons).

Electrons get tired after a while and can no longer work the radio, or light bulbs. This is sometimes referred to as a voltage drop. When this happens the electrons needs to rest. Batteries don't have anywhere for electrons to rest, that is why batteries don't last forever like outlets.

Outlets allow electrons to come visit us at our house. They come in one side, and once they get tired (they experience a "voltage drop")they leave by the other side. Once they leave they go and rest at the electric company until they are ready to go out again.

Electrons never die. Some people think that power companies make power, that is wrong. No power company has ever made even a single electron. They have been selling the same electrons for hundreds of years.

The only way to get rid of an electron is to introduce it to a positron. Once they meet they get married, and become a new-trino I think. They have baby strings which can grow up to be part of 10 to 11 dimensions. Once they get old their kids send them to neutron stars, which are like rest homes for them. Sometimes the rest homes go bankrupt, and the 'trinos are left to wander the vast expanse of space. Some speculate that due to the lack of proper hygiene they collect interstellar dust and become dark matter.