Is it possible to control the amount of static electricity in your body? As in centering it in one certain spot through a certain type of concentration or item?
2006-12-31 07:36:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Long, long ago, I read a letter to the editor in the letters column of the Legion of Super Heroes comic book, which said there was someone like Lightning Lad, who could cast lightning bolts. This boy supposedly had the ability to draw sparks several inches long from his fingertips, and I forget some of the details. I do not recall if it was supposed to be in the winter, or that it was mere static build up. I think that he may have had some kind of degenerative nerve disease, and this was a side-effect of it.
Having said that, there are certain tropical fish like the electric ray and the electric eel, which are able to use the muscles of their bodies as electrical storage and discharge organs. (The fact that they live in an aqueous, conductive medium helps.) They use the electrical sense at a low level to find directions, and at a higher level to stun prey or for self defense.
I do not know whether human beings are capable of doing the same thing. I suspect that it would be something like sending out a signal to contract all your muscles in a certain sequence, and that the voltage of each muscle fiber would sequentially reinforce the next. Similar to the way a phased-array radar system works.
However, this would be of little use to us, because we live in air instead of water. Air has a much higher resistance (the technical term is dielectric breakdown voltage) than water does. You would actually have to touch someone; you could not throw lightning bolts at range like Thor or Zeus.
Furthermore, it might injure you just as much as your target! When you go out to your car on an icy morning, and touch it and get a static zap you soon learn to touch the car with your key first. The key is also a conductive path, but this way there is no high voltage arc going off on your skin, where the high temperature (around 6000 degrees) is felt as an instant of pain.
But it sounds like you may have a brilliant future ahead of you in the field of medical research. Good luck!
31 DEC 06, 2117 hrs, GMT.
2006-12-31 08:14:08 · answer #1 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Control Electricity
2016-12-10 15:35:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Static electricity isn't necessarily IN your body, but your body acts as a "plate" for a giant capacitor. Additionally, your body combined with the clothing and environment surrounding it act as an electrical generator. Several factors come into play in making it an excellent capacitor (a device which stores electricity) and generator. 1) Size (area) of body, 2) humidity of your skin, 3) type of materials and thickness of your shoes, 4) materials your clothes are made of, 5) carpeting or other flooring you are walking on or furniture you are sitting in, 6) humidity in the air, 7) amount of movement of in and on these surfaces. I suppose there are more factors, but these are mainly the ones I can think of. It depends on if you WANT static electricity or not. Most people don't. So in order to control static here are some things you CAN do to control it: avoid wearing synthetic materials or wool (cotton clothing and leather soled shoes are good). Lift up your feet when walking. Get a humidifier in dry seasons. You may even try applying static guard to your clothing. These are things I have discovered that help.
2006-12-31 13:29:44 · answer #3 · answered by Dean D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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You control your muscles by electricity in your nerves. When you are controlling your muscles you do this by controlling electrical impulses. So yes.
2016-04-08 07:06:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what happens is that your body generates electricity and then your brain and nervous system run off of it and that s for every bug and animal on earth
2015-05-20 16:22:12 · answer #5 · answered by Wesley 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think anyone knows a way yet, i mean yet like the next minute, but short of the electric chair and a defribulator i dont know either
2016-03-14 00:03:55 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electric eels don't use static electricity. they use their nervous tissue.
2006-12-31 08:40:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Chang. Look him up. I can do it too but I'm still training.
2013-12-27 22:41:29 · answer #8 · answered by Dorian 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋