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I have read reports that people riding in cars have been severely injured when the cars were struck by lightning. A car would seem to be a fairly good Faraday cage. And it is connected to ground by the carbon black in the tires. Also, in theory, if the Faraday cage were perfectly spherical...

What is wrong with this computation ? (1) Mass of Earth's atmosphere is 5 x 10^18 Kg. (2) The heat capacity of dry air, Cp, is 1 KJ/Kg-K (3) BP states that the amount of fossil fuels burned worldwide in year 2008 was 11,295 million tons. Round that to 11 billion tons. (This may be...

I am sorry, but "corona discharge" does not answer the question of why buzzing (mechanical vibration) should occur. When I said I was familiar with the basics as outlined in Kraus, why do you assume that I am unaware of "corona discharge" ? Does anybody REALLY know the answer ?

I saw a science fiction movie in which some guys planted an atomic bomb in a cave in an asteroid which was headed toward Earth. The bomb blew the asceroid into a million meteroites which harmlessly burned up in the atmosphere. Is this possible ? An atomic bomb, detonated on Earth, creates...

I am familiar with the basic theory of how lightning rods work, at least as explained in the text "Electromagnetics" by Kraus (Ohio State). I was once standing on the roof of a 14-story dormitory at the U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. A thunderstorm was approaching. The lightning rods...

In the Reykjavik Grapevine, www.grapevine.is (dated 9.5.2009), the journalist Haukur S Magnusson interviewed the American film director David Lynch. Mr. Lynch said the following: (Begin quote.) It is such an interesting time, because quantum physics, for instance, has now discovered...