(January 19, 2020 at 5:37 pm)Haipule Wrote: I like that, "Personal lightening bolt". And that's where I got started thinking about that. If electricity can open an air mass: then can I open an EM bubble using electricity?
Lightning doesn't open air. It converts the air into conductive plasma with a temperature several times the surface of the sun. You could make a plasma bubble in air, the simplest way is to slap a couple of chunks of Plutonium together, but you'll end up a crispy critter.
Quote:I would need lots of static electricity in the form of capacitance with a glass insulator dielectric. And enough electricity to turn the glass insulator into a capacitor.
Glass is a middling poor dielectric. Go with PTFE for the best bang for your buck. Diamond is better but not exactly cost effective.
The amount of electricity that you'd need is obscene and it would likely be unhealthy to be anywhere near the device while the charge was applied.
Quote:Holes or leaks in the capacitors would be very bad
In the sense that you wouldn't exactly die so much as simply cease to be biology and become physics instead. Geography too.
Quote:and reaching the breakdown point of the dielectric would turn me into a falling rock.
No, it would turn you into a falling cinder.
Quote:And yes, the amount of EMF would be outrageously dangerous!
To put it kindly.
Quote:But, if we could pull it off, we would fly invisibly because light would bend around that bubble.
No. Capacitors don't bend light. We've observed some pretty powerful ones in operation and that didn't happen. If anything, the EM that you're putting out will make you much, much more obvious.
Quote:We would also weigh half our weight yet, not subjected to any "G-Force". There would no wind, friction or speed limit.
Also no. We've never observed any of those phenomena around large capacitors.
Let's keep this simple. The law of action-reaction and the conservation of momentum require that if something is pushing you forward then something else must be pushed backward. For some reason you want to use something as horrbily dangerous as capacitance to achieve that. Ignoring the problems inherent in that for the moment, what exactly is the electrical charge propelling backward?