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I agree. To say that a natually-occurring physical process or phenomenon was invented is nonsensical.

Electricity is not the same as electric power, just as nuclear fission is not the same as a nuclear weapon, just the same as fire is not the same as a coal fired power plant.

Electricity and nuclear fission were discovered, not invented.




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