Anyone spent time inside a Faraday cage?
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DougK1
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I cannot imagine how one would have any effect on mental health or sleep.
Friesiansam
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Should you get caught out in a electrical storm, a steel or aluminium bodied car will provide similar protection from lightning strikes. I've seen it demonstrated on the tellybox, using a hefty Van De Graaff generator.
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Which series was that?Ask Prof. Hannah Fry, she spent some time in one on her TV series
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Let's just say it's a topic that tends to garner interest on the fringes of science. But interestingly from two different camps: the holistic medicine space, and the world of silicon valley bro human productivity.
I can see how it might do, from a perspective of homeostasis - in the same way we still feel sound waves we cannot hear, I've often wondered if those low frequency waves were in some way unconsciously sensed by our bodies. If so, it can impact on how our internal system operates. (The system part being really important, as I'd imagine it would take some serious compounding before wifi messed with your Circadian rhythm in any meaningful way. But, I find the idea pretty fascinating.)
More importantly, we'd need a way to measure consciousness first. So my question is a long way off from having any kind of real answer.
Ah yes. I suppose a car acts v much like a faraday cage in that regard?
Electricity is crazy. I really should have studied audio electronics like I planned to.
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I saw it too, it was a Top Gear episode, scary
DougK1
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The genius of modern living... or something along those lines. Mr 12th Monkey will know the exact titleWhich series was that?
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plastic penguin
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Yup. Everyday. My car.
All modern cars are designed to deflect lightening strikes and it isn't to do with rubber tyres. All cars now deflect extreme strikes as a Faraday cage.
All modern cars are designed to deflect lightening strikes and it isn't to do with rubber tyres. All cars now deflect extreme strikes as a Faraday cage.
DougK1
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If a car is a true Faraday Cage then how come mobile phones work inside them?
Al ears
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They aren't, and there is enough carbon in the tyres to prevent that.
I would put forward Tesco Superstores as it is extremely difficult to get a phone signal in mine.
Friesiansam
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plastic penguin
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Down half of our village high street, which is approx 150 meters long, you totally lose internet signal.They aren't, and there is enough carbon in the tyres to prevent that.
I would put forward Tesco Superstores as it is extremely difficult to get a phone signal in mine.
The structure of a car is specifically designed to deflect lightening strikes.
DougK1
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Aah. Apparently if you're sitting in your car and suffer a lightning strike to the roof you are protected by a Faraday-cage 'effect'. The steel shell will conduct the charge through the external body shell, hopefully going safely to earth and not frying your electrics. Tyres are an insufficient insulator for such a high voltage charge. Unfortunately, if you've got the top down on your convertible it's pot luck 🤞
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davidf
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And HMV stores...They aren't, and there is enough carbon in the tyres to prevent that.
I would put forward Tesco Superstores as it is extremely difficult to get a phone signal in mine.
12th Monkey
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IIRC, The Secret Genius of Modern Life, series 2.The genius of modern living... or something along those lines. Mr 12th Monkey will know the exact title
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They aren't - the metal in the structure just conducts electricity better than the inside, so grounds it. At least that's my understanding - a Faraday cage proper is about excluding electromagnetic fields, and the fact that it also insulates against electricity is a helpful side-effect.
DougK1
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Thought you would know
Explained nicely here
Doesn't always go so well
JDL
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Oh yeah, I just happen to have Faraday cage in my shed. Hee hee hee.
Seriously though it sounds like I'd better knock one up or pop down to Tesco's and buy one. I'm most definitely in need of one. 😂
Friesiansam
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The people appeared to be ok as they got out of the car, the car looked a bit sick though...Doesn't always go so well
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I would imagine that the engine and electronics (being metal, at least in part) are not especially well-protected!
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