we have an elaborate lightning arrester installed at home. inspite of that magazines and other people advice that lightning can strike through mobile phones if they are used when theres thunder and lightning, technically speaking, how can lightning strike a cell phone? i need correct information.
2006-06-27 19:52:10 · 9 answers · asked by Art 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
No it can't! It's made of plastic and it's too small. Some people have too much imagination.
2006-07-04 00:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by Soso 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes. Not in the way you think, though.
Lightning is the Earth releasing electricity to the air (vice versa, whatever). This is done at a point where there is a) a low distance between the clouds and the ground, and b) where electricity can pass through. Hence, if you are inside a rubber house with your mobile up on your head, you will NOT be struck. However, if you are in the middle of an oval with your moblie held over your head, you will be struck by lightning because you are the tallest thing around you.
2006-06-27 20:01:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way i would think lighting would strike your mobile phone is if you put the mobile phone above your head and there was nothing else around you making you ,and the phone, the highest point. Depending on the phone (if it has alot of metal) it could hit the phone instead of you. But would then transer from the phone, to you, then to the ground.
But as far as you just using your phone in the city or near a tree, it would more than likely hit another structure or the tree first becuase it's higher than you.
2006-06-27 20:00:31 · answer #3 · answered by sbcadam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lightning chooses the easiest route to the ground;someone standing up a d using the phone may offer the path of least resistence; as cell phone is a metal object act as a conductor of electricty and thus carrying any metal objects increases the risk of being struck.if u r on the phone u provide direct route for an electrical charge to enter ur body
2006-06-27 20:00:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its would strikes any things that included your cellphone. its created by a cloud of positive electrons and negative electrons. just like what you see from a spark plug tip. but lightning strikes on anything not just metal. what ever happen to be in the cloud of electrons. I live in the countryside and I'd seen lot of things hit by lightning.
2006-06-27 20:13:25 · answer #5 · answered by puddytat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
likely no longer, i'm conserving likely because lightning seems to go back up with a sparkling trick each so usually. The tires on a vehicle have no longer something to do with it, the metallic body of a vehicle will change into what they call a " Faraday cage", it passes by the metallic and round no longer by you.
2016-11-29 21:14:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
charge always gathers maximum on sharp ends and if your mobile has an antennae then that is why it has maximum possibility of lightening striking through mobile phones as the air gets ionized during lightening.
2006-06-27 21:12:39 · answer #7 · answered by katrina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they cod conduct if the radiations from phone are very high
2006-06-27 21:02:19 · answer #8 · answered by richappi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-06-27 19:57:35 · answer #9 · answered by sa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋