7. What causes static electricity?
Static shock occurs when an excess of positive or negative charge builds up on a surface, that can be either a body part or an object. In the first case, if you have some of this charge built up on a part of your body, if you touch something, it can leave you neutralized. In the second case, if there’s some electricity build-up on a doorknob, for example, if you touch it, you’ll be the excess charge’s exit route.
A traditional theory says that when two objects are being rubbed together, the friction knocks the electrons off the atoms in one of the objects. After that, they move on to the other object, leaving the first one with an excess of positively charged atoms, while the second one has an excess of negative electrons.
Bartosz Grzybowski, a researcher from Northwestern University, found that patches of both kind of excesses exist on an object that is statically charged. He also found that not just electrons, but whole molecules seemed to migrate between objects as they are rubbed together.
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Let nature take it’s course, natural human immunity is the best cure for it, so stop trying to fix what God has already perfected…
In order to HAVE time you need at least two objects that are not like each other in any manner. In the situation where that does exist movement of one relative to the other is time. We have that situation.
Time does NOT exist. It is a virtual concept created by man to measure how fast something changes. IE distance traveled per hour. And if you thing about time travel is absolutely ridiculous because to travel back in “time” you would have to move every atom in the universe back to its position at that time. Going forward in time is even more difficult because you would have to predict all the random events that would occur in the universe and then move all atoms in the universe to that position. Impossible to that. So time was created by man, a very useful concept but still doesn’t have “existence”.