Re: ee's please reply - (or those who think think they may know)

B A R R Y wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:48:22 -0500, Tim Daneliuk
<tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I'm not sure where you're going with this. Skin Effect is
not an "assumption" - it can be calculated and probably even
measured.

At the Boston Museum of Science, there is a live demo where an
operator in a metal cage is hit by lightning while his or her hands
are against the inside of the cage. The lightning travels down the
outside of the cage.

<http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/cage.html>

Well worth the trip if in Boston!



Just bear in mind that lightning is an electroSTATIC phenomenon not
electroMAGNETIC one. It's been way to many years since I actually
had to know anything about this stuff, but IIRC, the behaviors
of electrostatics are governed by rather different mathematics
than electromagnetics (which are described by Maxwell's Equations).
So ... what you see at the museum is not exactly the same thing
under discussion here. It's still fun to watch though :)

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