if our body is not in contact with the ground ,what will happen if lightining strikes us and why??

Answer 1

Like the other guy said, lightning can pass through you,and you could die, be a fried vegetable, or walk away un-harmed.average bolts generate around 100,000 volts, but it's the amps that will kill.

Answer 2

As the previous person said, you don't have to be on the ground for lightning to cause serious damage. All you need is to be between a higher potential and a lower potential for lightning to "strike". I have flown in airplanes when there were lightning storms, and the lightning leaps from one cloud to another, or even within the cloud itself. So there is no need for someone to be in contact with the ground for lightning to strike them. And yes, peripheral to your question, it is the amps (current) that kills and not the volts. More trivia: the world record I believe is 7 times, for lightning to have struck one person, and still survived.

Answer 3

Ever get the static shock from scuffing your feet on carpet and touching a doorknob? Neither you or the doorknob is grounded but there is still a flow of electrons from a place of "excess" to a place of "absence". You don't need to be grounded for lighning to flow through you. Remember lightning even travels between clouds.

Answer 4

I think we still die, though.
The lightning will get straight through our body and jump over to the ground. This, of course, depends on your distance to ground.

You can also die, when your head's to the lightning and your feet are away from it. The electric field within you body leads to a voltage too high for your body to survive.

Answer 5

Lightning is not stopped by separation from the ground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning

Airplanes are struck by lightning all the time: No matter how high up you are, the energy from the lightning stroke must go somewhere, so the energy will invariably go THROUGH you to exit, and the amount of current flowing will stop, if not fry, your heart/body.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_shock

Answer 6

We will die, because lightning kills people when it strikes them.