@@ElessarEstel You're not wrong! Just a weird idea for me, it's like one of the two rules we were taught as a child about it, the other one being you shouldn't go swim. Wouldn't come to my mind to try to take "shelter" from thunder under a tree :D
@@AammaK I love these kind of comebacks. Intelligent ones, when you could have just ridiculed his spelling of 'Lightning' as Lighting,but decided to school him instead.
God: Haha handicapped man, lemme shock him to death Lightning: *Cures the man’s blindness and deafness* God: *That’s not how you’re supposed to play the game*
Kinda makes sense. Sight is a ton of electrical impulses in the brain, so this strike was powerful enough to "jump start" his sight. Wouldn't have thought of it, but this is really cool.
2:30 "Yay science" as brew said it with his eyebagged eyes and the countless sleepless nights because of mathematics and science due to research and highschool/college education
There's actually been a considerable amount of medical research and opinion in recent years that have said conversion disorder (now retermed "functional neurological disorder") to be sort of between psychological and neurological. There is no physical degeneration of nervous tissue, and no epileptiform electrical activity, but portions of the brain and CNS do actually function differently as a result of the disorder, including in cases where there is no psychological cause, such as trauma or comorbidity. Certain imaging studies, such as PET scans, show that there is dysfunction in the brain areas responsible for the affected symptoms, i.e. if there is blindness, the change in function occurs exclusively in the occipital lobe and the pre-occipital visual tissues; if there are seizures, the change in function happens in the motor cortex, etc. Of course, the case in 1980 was before a lot of this research was done, but from what we know now, it is incorrect to say FND or conversion disorder is psychological or "hysterical".
So I actually experienced conversion disorder it made it so I couldn't walk and this video really explains well how it works this is really cool man keep up the great videos
Lol. No One has in my life descriptive on voltage is as clear as yours. Always wondered how or what that blasted hose meant. Water flow. The deferent in charge is so easer for me to understand. Thanks bro
I nearly got struck by lightning once, I was playing some football outside and some hail started pouring down. We ignored it and continued our game, a few minutes later 3 lightning bolts struck at once. One was near my friend, and one was right in front of me, someone recalled seeing one to the left of them. The thing is, I was running towards where the bolt was, If I hadn't stopped to wave at my friend, I would probably be dead. Somebody has small burns on their coat because they were infront of the bolt and the bolt was behind them. I'm not particularly sure why there was hail in the usual rain role for thunder, it wasn't even cold.
5:38 voltage is NOT a measurement of energy, the number which would determine how long a lightning strike could light a lightbulb is the unit of energy, joule, or more commonly used watt hour does measure how much energy something has. Voltage shows that there is as potential for electricity to flow, like pressure in pipes. edit: energy used to say power for some reason, it is now fixed
i was so surprised to see Franklin hospital referenced, as someone who lives 15 mins from that hospital its locally known as one of the worst hospitals in Nassau County
Another possibility is that he actually died, or at least left his body, and came back, but doesn't remember it. Miraculous healings are quite common after a near death experience.
Electrons themselves don't shoot to the ground in a split second, but rather all free electrons in the now conductive oxygen move in the same direction quite slowly. This commonly accepted theory is called electron drift vilocity. Thanks for the vid Brew!
Imagine being struck by lightning then your vision comes back, a curse that has been with you for as long as you can remember, you can now see, you can now do so much stuff
I have a friend that had been struck by lightning twice before reaching 30. The chances have to be so small for that to happen. He should’ve bought a lottery ticket afterwards.
he said he woke up face in water, maybe theres a chance some of the lightning came in contact with the water and started circuting for a moment when he fell head first onto it. maybe the electrified water jump-start his sight and hearing by sending small bits of electricity into his eyes and ears
4:30 Exchange of ions? No no, that'd be exchange of electrons 5:40 also a larger current, ampere, is way more devastating than a higer voltage. Voltage mostly only enables the current to flow, while the current has the large effects on the human body. You can't actually power any bulb for any substantial time with 300 million volts if your current is low enough.
That is not how this would have worked. The fact that currents can't flow trough the rubber doesn't mean there is no electric field. His feet and the ground would have acted as a capacitors, which would have meant that a current would first flow from leg to leg. But since the rubber soles doesn't conduct electricity it has to flow back the way it came from when the lightning strike is over. This would give him twice the shock. Rubber also has a relatively high relative permittivity: 7. That is more than 3 times as high as that of normal plastic: 2.25. Relative permittivity is defined by how much a material gets polarized when it is in an electric field. The electric field forces dipolar molecules to temporarily turn to form a dipolar electric field that counteracts the electric field. If you have a material of relative permittivity 2 inside a capacitor then the capacitor needs to store twice as much charge to become saturated with charges. Meaning it no longer conducts any current. So for rubber vs lets say air you need 7 times as much current to make the natural capacitor saturated. In other words ouch. This is why rubber is never use in high voltage contexts. If you touching a voltage source in the 10,000 volts range, while wearing a rubber dish glove and happen to have a finger from the other hand a feet/30cm away from the source then good by. The hand with the glove will be charged up till there is enough voltage for an electrical arch to jump to your finger. The charge build up in your gloved hand will discharge from hand to hand and trough your entire torso.
It's annoying to be legally blind and some people look at you and say "that doesn't exist, you're just low vision", man my worst eye has only light perception while my better is 20/400
Just saying I recently watched a creepypasta story that has deterred me from ever getting electroshock therapy or getting electrically shocked for my entire life (thought this would be something to share since this entire video is about electricity)
Well like you were saying the nerves of the brain stimulates muscles and other functions with electrical impulses, suppose the shock from Edwins car wreck overloaded, blew out, or jarred the part of the brain that stimulated the optic and hearing nerves in a manner similar to conditions that trigger amnesia, but on a smaller scale. You could say the nerves are undamaged and still there, but it's like the brain lost a page of the address book that told it where all the eye and ear nerves were, but when the electrical charge/trauma happened the whole brain essentially fired off all it's electrons willy nilly and ended up reestablishing contact to the optical/hearing nerves.
Volts is not a measurement of how much or how long something can be powered. You need volts and amps over time to figure that out. Electrocution is death so this man was shocked, not electrocuted.
My best friend has an irrational fear of being struck by lightening. I can now use these stats to calm her… or freak her out. Either way I’ll get a laugh 😂
