Anyone who has ever pet a cat or shuffled their feet across the carpet knows that rubbing objects together generates static electricity. But an explanation for this phenomenon has eluded researchers for more than two millennia.
It’s so bizarre, I was just talking to the wife about it a couple nights ago, we have 2 cats, about 5 years old now, they’re sisters, almost everything about them is the same, but 1 I can pet for a half hour without any electro static discharge, the other I can’t stroke twice without an audible shock being generated.
Same clothing, same motion, same grounding potential. Every 10 seconds I zap the poor baby. My wife doesn’t have this problem at all.
It’s so bizarre, I was just talking to the wife about it a couple nights ago, we have 2 cats, about 5 years old now, they’re sisters, almost everything about them is the same, but 1 I can pet for a half hour without any electro static discharge, the other I can’t stroke twice without an audible shock being generated.
Same clothing, same motion, same grounding potential. Every 10 seconds I zap the poor baby. My wife doesn’t have this problem at all.
I think it could be a case study for this paper.