question re shocks from the car

HI! I am 4 mos post PM and am wondering if anyone else has found that they are getting more shocks from their cars? Every time I get out of the car and turn to close the door I get a shock (not in my chest but whatever part of me touches the car)...did not used to happen....connected to the PM?
thanks!
cb

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Where is Moraga, CA?

by donr - 2013-06-24 04:06:51

If in the desert, you should be getting shocks - static electricity, just like Sparrow said.

Long as it's at the point of contact when you feel it, has zip to do w/ the PM. Won't hurt PM, either.

You don't like it? Hold a key in your hand & as you get out, touch metal of the car body w/ the key first.

Don

thanks....

by cb - 2013-06-25 03:06:22

don, I just referenced you in a post about upper HR!
I thought that the metal in our bodies was perhaps making us a better conductor now. Just wondering as I do not know anyone but you all who has a PM.
Gee I appreciate this site!
and Moraga is in the SF bay area (CA) not a desert yet

I'm surprised at the car shocks...

by donr - 2013-06-26 09:06:47

...near SF. That place is the world's supplier of fog, isn't it?

That metal in your body contributes NOTHING to your ability to conduct electricity. Especially static electricity. That's because it is totally encapsulated in your body.

What happens is that while you are sitting in the car - most likely on artificial leather seats, or perhaps some polymer fabric w/ a nap, your clothing, which is probably also a polymer, generates a static electricity build up. It cannot go anywhere because the clothing AND the seat covers are all non-conductive. The charge just builds up - till you open the door & touch the metal of the car body. Then, all that static charge just suddenly bleeds off into the car & you feel the shock.

Now, remember that I said that the PM contributes NOTHING because it is totally inside your body? Well, since your body is a great conductor - all the blood is just chock full of conducting materials & the muscles are likewise just full of conducting substances, electric charge cannot reside anywhere but on the surface of the body. The charged particles are most likely electrons, which all have the same negative charge to them. They repel one another till they are spread equally all over the outside of your body, like a layer of skin. You touch the car & they all rush to the touch point to get away from you. That point where you touch the car is pretty small & there are a gadzillion of them, so you feel them as they pass through.

Since they stay on the outside of your body, they never pass even remotely close to your PM & it remains safe.

Don

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