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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

High frequency! It Mega hurtz!

Low frequency! It kill a hurtz!

Ultra high frequency! It giga hurtz!

Pretty much any high voltage high frequency thing really hurtz. It'll kill you at different rates but it'll hurt the entire time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Still the path of least resistance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or is it the path of most convenience? 🤷‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Sounds the same to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It's like one of those lichtenburg patterns, except in air.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh hey, I design those. Though I design them so that there's an incredibly low risk they do that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Boorring, we want sparks ✨️

...and DEATH

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll see what I can fit into my next design

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looks like a mad scientist cackling a maniacal laugh.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

With sufficient voltage, everything is a conductor.

With insufficient voltage, everything is an insulator.

Neither may be conducive to those roles, but everything has some conductivity and some resistance (super conductors being a possible exception).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How about in vacuum? Do you get fancy arcs or glows or what?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In typical conditions, an electrical arc forms when the electric field strength exceeds the dielectric strength of the medium (like air). In a vacuum, there is no medium to ionize, which theoretically makes it difficult for an arc to form. However, electricity can still arc in a vacuum under certain conditions, such as when high voltages are involved or when the electrodes are extremely close together.

https://peacepower.ca/faqs/can-electricity-arc-in-a-vacuum#%3A%7E%3Atext=In+typical+conditions%2C+an+electrical%2Celectrodes+are+extremely+close+together.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking neon lights. I mean that's basically an arc, just spread out. I think I heard that there's a glow in vacuum too, just not as nice as with neon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Well, a quick search turned up this: Vacuum Arc

However, like the above comment, it seems to refer to freeing electrons from the conducts, so, IMHO, you no longer have a vacuum.

If you could somehow maintain a perfect vacuum; I wonder how this concept Virtual particle would come into play (or if it would at all).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Now playing Electric Six - High Voltage

Edit: all credit due to [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Its funny because the arc looks a bit like Louise Belcher laughing maniacally

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