NEW FILM: Explore the magical world of static electricity by making charged objects move without touching them, and give your children Jedi powers with a few everyday objects!
Electric fields are the force in real life.They can repel/attract objects or charges and everything including you and me are what surrounds us and binds matter and charges to one another.Without electric/electromagnetic fields everything would disintegrate.
I have a quick question. If the electrons from the atoms of the cloth (C, H, N, O etc.) where do they attach onto specifically onto the atoms of the balloon? Does the n=2 shell fill up and cause the balloon atoms to be ionised (which would rustle the chemistry) or do they hang out somewhere up above? Just thinking of Pauli Exclusion Principle
This is a great question, which often gets glossed over in discussions of static. The transferred charge, if in the form of individual electrons, does get incorporated into the molecules of the balloon. There is no issue with the Pauli Exclusion Principle because the whole electronic structure of the molecules rearranges to accommodate the extra charge. This is what happens normally in a covalent bond - in fact the process of charge transfer is a result of the temporary formation of chemical bonds where the two surfaces touch, causing a redistribution of charge. When the two surfaces are separated, that fixes the new charge distribution, resulting in a net transfer.
