“I AM the wire!”
Ġ̵̻ͅį̴̹̜̼̙͍͋̈̕m̷̦͎͈̎̄̄̿̈ṁ̶̭̫͓̞̻̾̂̚ë̶͚́̍̀͆ ̴̻͗̈́̿̂̚͝f̴̧̳̝͓̫̆̍͌͠u̸̧̖̠̗͔̽̽̾ȇ̶̝̠̎̔l̵̡͙͔̀́̃́̓͘,̵̠̜̽͛ ̴͙̜͇͚̥̜̑͛͐̓͆͒ḡ̸̮͝͠ḯ̸͍̩͛͗̍͝ṁ̶̛͎̖̭̖̓̃͑̃ḿ̵̫̇e̸͈͕̍̍͒ ̸̧̣̣̣̹̺͌̃ẇ̴̤̳͇̪̝̑̈́̏̚i̶͖͒̒r̶̢̪̙͉̭̥̂̐e̵̞̳̻̍͘
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Comments
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“I’ll make my own wire! With ions! And plasma!”
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nebulae: “In fact, forget the wire!”
Spins and condenses into a star
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
🫵
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
“I cannot pass through anything that is not a conductor”
Quantum tunneling: “Allow us to introduce ourselves”
ik5pvx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But if they do, they’ll collapse and disappear, right?
invictvs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, everything is a
dildoconductor if you arebravehigh voltage enough.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Substation switchgear: Opens circuit
Electricity: “Nnnneeeeeooooooooowwwwwzzzzzzzzzttttttttt!!!”
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All paths proportional to their conductivity! However air is very low conductivity until it’s heated to its ionizing point
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tell that to the high voltage power lines I go for bike rides under… There’s no visible ionization, but I can feel tingling in my hands and sometimes nuts…
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah it’s not enough to heat up the air enough to arc, likely because the vast majority of it is going through the conductive wire it’s supposed to be
Techranger@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
You’re experiencing the other part of electromagnetism: the magnetic field. As you and your bike pass across the magnetic waves, a charge is induced on you and your bike. You’re feeling what it’s like to be the rotor of an electric motor, or the other side of a capacitor, or the secondary coil of a transformer!
InputZero@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On top of that it’s not like there isn’t any energy outside of a wire conducting electricity. It’s just that in the vast majority of applications it’s insignificant. Electricity isn’t really a thing, it’s all just fields.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oooooooh yeeeaaahh haaaa
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
invictvs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Under high voltage the current still follows the path of least resistance even when it looks like it does not. What people don’t think about is that resistance is not a constant and under strong enough electric field dielectric materials (isolators if you will) can loose their propeties. Strong enough field can rip electrons from elements causing ionisation. Other things such as temperature, mechanical stress, radiation also affect different materials.
So what high voltage changes is making it harder to resist, but charge will still follow least resistance and aim to go for the nearest lest resistance material if such is available.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The problem is “path of least resistance” implies that there is only one path, which laymen tend to take literally. I go for bike rides along a canal which also has high voltage power lines running above it. If I hold my handlebars just right, with my hands just barely touching the metal of my brake levers, the (I assume) corona discharge gets rather painful. “Path of least resistance” seems like it should be confined to the wire, but in fact includes ~100 feet of air between wire and ground… And me.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
… Wow. That’s… Wow. An extreme warning sign for me in my work.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Who’s defining low and high here?
Magnetar looking at every voltage that’s ever occurred on Earth: Aw, that’s cute.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Well, there aren’t any real scientific definitions but there sure are legal and regulatory definitions.
(I haven’t checked the local requirements but there’s micro voltage, low voltage and high voltage. Micro voltage is basically anything below 12v - for anything above that you need to be a certified electrician. Doubly so if you go to triple digits)
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
One of the scienc-y YouTubers said, IIRC, around 400V.
tio_bira@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Everything is a good conductor if the voltage is high enough
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Neutron star?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yes, but at that point it’s not really voltage anymore. It would be more like a rapidly expanding cloud of electrons ionizing anything it came across.
It could be more focused though a magnetar though, and a magnetar might conduct the ionised plasma nearby, or even through the galaxy in interactions with the local supermassive black hole.
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
“Path of least resistance” thinking kills people. Electricity takes ALL paths available to it, inversely proportional to their resistance.
phaedrus@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Ride the Lightning, bb
alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
RF: this wire is too bendy for me go get through
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s jus’ a little arc flash between friends.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Any path will do. Even if its straight through you.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pretty much my day job. Really, really angry electrons.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Therapists deal with angry action potentials.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
̴̥̂i̵̜͌ ̵͖̈́ä̶̰ṃ̵̓ ̴͇͠m̷̜̔y̴̟̋ ̴̧̾o̸͚̐w̶̞̓n̵̡͆ ̵͔̏w̸̠̄i̴̠̒r̶̜̕e̶̻̅
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeaah-heah!
Ambiwar@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Even at low voltages, electricity passes through insulation. It’s just extremely low current.
High voltage also follows the path of least resistance to lower potential, but the “circuit” is everything within arcing distance.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
logicbomb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
High voltage: “I am still taking the path of least resistance. If you wanted me to use a wire, then you should have given me an appropriate wire.”
Natanael@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Super
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Khan, you are a banana.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
(⚡🔌two seasons of sliding the same two pictures back and forth)
You cannot travel this path it is air, air is a resistor, Mwahaha!
I will make it conductive!
W, What are you doing?!
I am adding so much energy to the nitrogen in the air that electrons themselves are stripped from the atoms, ionizing the gas and creating PLASMA! a new fourth state of matter!
Ground yourself You Fool! you’re going to get us all killed!
I would rather explode than exist in your completed loop of isolation from the outside!
(🎶Heroic animé music playing🎶) (💥Epic over the top fight scene💥)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!