Why do you get a tiny shock after walking across a carpet?
You Are Lightning
Why do you get a tiny shock after walking across a carpet?
You shuffle across the carpet, reach for the doorknob, and — ZAP! A tiny spark bites your fingertip. Nobody hid a buzzer there. So who, exactly, just shocked you? Plot twist: it was you. Let's find out how you became a walking battery.
First, a secret about everything around you. Every object — your shoe, the carpet, the air, even you — is built from countless tiny pieces called atoms. And each atom carries even tinier specks of electricity called electrons. Think of electrons as tiny, restless beads that don't like sitting still.
