“I AM the wire!”
Ġ̵̻ͅį̴̹̜̼̙͍͋̈̕m̷̦͎͈̎̄̄̿̈ṁ̶̭̫͓̞̻̾̂̚ë̶͚́̍̀͆ ̴̻͗̈́̿̂̚͝f̴̧̳̝͓̫̆̍͌͠u̸̧̖̠̗͔̽̽̾ȇ̶̝̠̎̔l̵̡͙͔̀́̃́̓͘,̵̠̜̽͛ ̴͙̜͇͚̥̜̑͛͐̓͆͒ḡ̸̮͝͠ḯ̸͍̩͛͗̍͝ṁ̶̛͎̖̭̖̓̃͑̃ḿ̵̫̇e̸͈͕̍̍͒ ̸̧̣̣̣̹̺͌̃ẇ̴̤̳͇̪̝̑̈́̏̚i̶͖͒̒r̶̢̪̙͉̭̥̂̐e̵̞̳̻̍͘
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MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“I’ll make my own wire! With ions! And plasma!”
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nebulae: “In fact, forget the wire!”
Spins and condenses into a star
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
🫵
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
“I cannot pass through anything that is not a conductor”
Quantum tunneling: “Allow us to introduce ourselves”
ik5pvx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But if they do, they’ll collapse and disappear, right?
invictvs@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, everything is a
dildoconductor if you arebravehigh voltage enough.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Substation switchgear: Opens circuit
Electricity: “Nnnneeeeeooooooooowwwwwzzzzzzzzzttttttttt!!!”
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All paths proportional to their conductivity! However air is very low conductivity until it’s heated to its ionizing point
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Oooooooh yeeeaaahh haaaa
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 month ago
invictvs@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
… Wow. That’s… Wow. An extreme warning sign for me in my work.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
One of the scienc-y YouTubers said, IIRC, around 400V.
tio_bira@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Everything is a good conductor if the voltage is high enough
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Neutron star?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
“Path of least resistance” thinking kills people. Electricity takes ALL paths available to it, inversely proportional to their resistance.
phaedrus@piefed.world 1 month ago
Ride the Lightning, bb
alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
RF: this wire is too bendy for me go get through
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s jus’ a little arc flash between friends.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Any path will do. Even if its straight through you.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pretty much my day job. Really, really angry electrons.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Therapists deal with angry action potentials.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
̴̥̂i̵̜͌ ̵͖̈́ä̶̰ṃ̵̓ ̴͇͠m̷̜̔y̴̟̋ ̴̧̾o̸͚̐w̶̞̓n̵̡͆ ̵͔̏w̸̠̄i̴̠̒r̶̜̕e̶̻̅
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeaah-heah!
Ambiwar@hexbear.net 1 month 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 1 month ago
logicbomb@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Super
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Khan, you are a banana.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 month 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!