Yes, it's predictable: It has to be predictable however both can be influenced by other outside forces. Thus if the behavior is not following the expected behavior, the predictable behavior, then there is something influencing the otherwise predictable outcome.
It's not a stupid question. It's really a question about the fundamental nature of power; what is it and where does it come from.
Let me see If I can explain "my conceptualization" without making this too confused and again you're only asking what I myself have struggled to assemble.
*Half the reason I'm a scribbler on this topic is because it makes me refine my own understanding. Now remember I'm neither a hobbyist or electrical engineer. What I say is my own conceptualization of how this works.
Electricity and Magnetism cannot exist independly, and for one reason: They are both the same energy. These are both made from the ether (counterspace). Counterspace, or the ether if you prefer, is where all energy resides and comes out from. A field is something which is all encompassing. It's everywhere, at all times, in all places. We have to have this concept in our minds before anything else. We have to understand that right this second all around is this energy field of galactic power.
The ether is a dielectric form of power which seeks to remain united with counterspace in an incoherent form, like static, it exists whizzing by us, going through us, going through all matter perturbed only slightly by the fact, and like water it can be formed into a stream or raging river, but it's nature is to be one with an ocean of energy.
A magnet is pure united and coherent concentrated dielectric energy formed in to lines which circulate through a center point or source point, a point which it returns back to counterspace and becomes once more an incoherent dielectric energy. You can see these coherent lines in 3D form through the ferrocell: Like laser beams the surrounding ether is formed in to coherent lines. All around us another unseen and nearly undetected source of energy exists, just as Tesla said it did, and we know this because magnets can be created anywhere, at any place, and they create visible lines out of thin air, and when that happens you can then generate electricity, but you cannot have magnetism without electricity either. No such creature exists, and the reason is that these are both the same energy, with the only difference being that electricity arises when the dielectric energy is being put under stress.
Now of course that explanation is the problem isn't it? Stress? How do we stress this energy? This question is where we are but we know how to do it with a magnet and a conductor already. So really we are trying to understand how nature does this instead of by understanding how a text book tells us how to produce it.
Remember now, electricity flows on a conductor, but it's not a bunch of electrons hoping along a wire, it's ray, a beam, an energy moving so fast that it is for all practical purposes a ribbon of seamless energy like a river is one of water. So in air what then is the conductor? It must be a magnetic line, and which is what then; a coherent dielectric line? Does it need to even be coherent like that of a magnet? Is there more, are there other forms it will follow? Is one color or invisible form of light more densely filled with dielectric energy?
Would it be a straight dielectric coherent line or a spiraling line if the electrical is itself straight? It would have to be a spiral would it not?
Watch this from 3:00 minutes on to the very end. There are other videos but this is the best one. I just wonder why it stops is all. Observe here how the spiral lines dissipate, how there seems to be a mirror image opening and itself dissipating. Now, do you really think this is a failed rocket?
Electricity is stessed dielectric energy. Now this concept is something harder to grasp only because we have so little association with the idea that one thing can be two things, so first let me give you some advice before we go any further. You're going to have to repeatedly expose your mind to the idea that the ether (counterspace) is a dielectric energy, let the mind slowly chew that one while thinking about the others (the mind being suspicious about this concept naturally), and while it's sidetracked on that also give this problem of how can this energy make both a magnet and an electrical current? Just let it absorb the concepts at it's own pace. Don't try to ram it down or rebellion will ensue. Let your own mind work at its' natural pace. Don't expect it will just all come together with one exposure. New things take time for the mind to assimilate.
The counterspace energy field can make electricity out of thin air, such as static electricity made from incoherent dielectric energy, and here I think of lightning or of quartz and the piezoelectric power that it can make but which is absorbed out of the either, or electricity can be coherent made from a coherent field line, like say for example that of a magnet stressed by being forced to follow an un-natural path.
This really doesn't explain anything I realize. See, you cannot have one without the other because they are in fact products of the same energy. This energy which is called counterspace, it's a dielectric field, a dielectric meaning insulative since it's all around us at all times, so it has to exist in a dielectric state as an insulator. To become energy like electrical energy it has to become polarized, or sorted, and here look at what a quartz stone does. It polarizes the surrounding ether and it acts like a capacitor storing this energy in a polarized form. So internally it's stressing the either by stretching it apart and keeping it apart, so we say it's an insulator but it only insulates up to a point where breakdown occurs and discharge takes place. Now of course the interesting thing about the quartz is that this makes it vibrate and so why is it doing that?
Here with that question, and if we go back to our theory of the ether being this hypervelocity energy field, it sort of begins to make sense. You've got this material, quartz, which is holding the dielectric apart in an unnatural state that it doesn't want to be in, and when it can't hold more energy apart than it's crystalline forms can support the quartz discharges, with the result that both partitioned dielectric fields move towards point sources which are apart, quite unlike a magnet where they cycle back to this central hub. Now this is something like a wireless circuit with the dielectric fields having to go out into the surrounding ether on their own looking for a way to get back to normal and to become an insulator by being non polarized.
I just think of a dielectric as being a jumbled mixed set of electrical charges and in that state it's an insulator, that's what it want's to be, and stress is when you pull it apart and make it go on paths it doesn't like. See, if you make the dielectric field be what it doesn't want to be, well it only works half way, then it may decide to shock you, possibly set the house on fire, or electrocute you. This is why humans have a poor relationship with Universe generally speaking. Don't know why it want's us to succeed when we are so stupid in our dealing with her.