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Can vacuum breakdown occur from a positively charged surface?
Against a sufficiently large voltage, resistance is futile.
Although the vacuum is a very good insulator, electrical breakdown can occur even in a perfect vacuum in the presence of a very strong ...
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Would rubber shoes offer any form of protection against cloud-to-ground lightning strikes?
I was reading an article from abcnews about Why so many people survive being struck by lightning. Later in the article it says the following:
But direct strikes make up only a minuscule portion of ...
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Lightning in space, would it be a perfectly straight line?
I have read this question:
Can lightning happen in a vacuum?
I do understand that here on Earth lightning consists of electrons moving in space and some of these electrons are tracing path, and ...
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Does a Tesla coil work in space?
If I took a Tesla coil into space, and then turned it on near, but not touching metal objects- would charge jump to the metal objects? It's my understanding I wouldn't see a flash, since the lightning ...
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