Sean, I already said, no explanation has complete sense. It's not about believes. If you read a lot about the electro-dermal system ( http://www.bem.fi/book/27/27.htm), about the bioenergy, about the electromagnetic waves which our body is able to generate, you can find a lot of strange things. Yes, use please scientific publications and not Youtube as I did in the previous example. It's not too much even when some guys are saying we are the God. But of course we are not talking about religion on Piclist. :) The movie about the Indian guy I saw on Discovery. The Serbian capacitor is also feasible. For me, both are possible and valid behavior of the human body. best wishes, Vasile On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Sean Breheny wrote: > Sorry but I think that these guys are faking this. I would need more proo= f > than a video like this to believe this. It's not just about the body's > ability to tolerate the electric current - in some of these cases, there > should be enough voltage drop to cause burns. What the Serbian guy does i= s > more believable. If your skin is very dry you could do the majority of wh= at > he does (not entirely safely but ...). When he holds the conductors in hi= s > mouth, he could be well enough insulated from ground - he is not conducti= ng > THROUGH his body to make the circuit like the Indian man appears to be > doing. > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:09 AM, embedded systems > wrote: > > > Ryan, when you're talking about living beings, nothing has really sense= : > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DBNj5ShEM7U0 > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DTMV94ZV1xSc > > > > is just about how can you understand something, without feeling the > emotion > > as other guys does by experimenting it. It's not about philosophy, but > the > > real life. > > Do not do this at home. > > > > Vasile > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Ryan O'Connor > wrote: > > > > > Thanks that makes sense. > > > > > > On 29 March 2015 at 04:00, Sean Breheny wrote: > > > > Regarding skin resistance: the resistance from point to point on th= e > > > human > > > > body, measured BELOW the skin, is quite low, on the order of 10 to > 100 > > > > ohms. Typical low voltage, multimeter resistance test of sweaty ski= n > is > > > > about 100k ohms, which indicates that the skin is a pretty good > > > insulator. > > > > However, if you were to break through the topmost layer of the skin > > > > (stratum corneum - can be removed by gentle abrasion, even > > accidentally), > > > > you would see the resistance drop to a few k Ohms. If a high-ish > > voltage > > > > (say even 50V) is applied to this, there will be heating effects > > locally > > > > where it contacts the skin and this may be enough to cause the skin > to > > > > break down further, allowing higher current to flow, causing more > heat > > > > generation, etc. until the skin is completely broken down at those > > points > > > > and current is flowing at high levels limited only by the internal > body > > > > resistance. This runaway process can happen in a fraction of a seco= nd > > if > > > > high enough current is available. > > > > > > > > So, in summary, the point-to-point body resistance is highly > nonlinear > > > and > > > > dependent on the duration of contact and many other factors. > > > > > > > > In any event, the human body is not really a SHORT circuit by most > > > > definitions of short circuit, but it doesn't have to be to allow > > serious > > > > injury or death due to electric shock. > > > > > > > > Sean > > > > -- > > > > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > > > View/change your membership options at > > > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > -- > > > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > > View/change your membership options at > > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > View/change your membership options at > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .