Static Electricity

[ysabetwordsmith]

... comes from friction, possibly due to tiny deformations in the surface of materials.  

That could also explain why some magical folks have more electrical activity.  Their higher energy has more influence over the shape of things, because "solid" matter is really just a bunch of whizzing bits of energy.

Comments

Re: Who's lawyers?

[ysabetwordsmith]

Then how would it still be sticky?

Re: Who's lawyers?

[siliconshaman]

because a dust mote is smaller than whatever you're sticking to it. The charge would spread across a small object, like dust mote, but with larger items like say a post-it note sized bit of paper, the induced charge would be greater than the contact charge.

The difference is, the induced charge is internal and as size changes we get into cube -square laws.

Re: Who's lawyers?

[ysabetwordsmith]

Ah, okay. So could that contribute to vrip? It acts a lot like velcro, but it's much softer, with a texture more like corduroy.

[siliconshaman]

Yeah, it could do.. the greater the surface area, the greater the grip after all.

Although I would think it would have a slightly tacky feel, like the sticky strip of a post-it note. You could probably even manufacture it so that two strips develop opposite charges, making them stick to each other harder than they'd grip anything else.

and you do relaise, that means it wold be possible to make vrip, IRL.

[gingicat]

Vrip vulnerable to pranksters.

Point!

[siliconshaman]

All you'd need to do is depolarize it... and any weak electrical charge would do that. One very weak taser, and everything would come undone..

Re: Point!

[redsixwing]

The costuming potential is enormous. :D

[siliconshaman]

Oh yeah, not so much prank as quick-change act!