Do surgical implants attract lightning

Answer 1

The answer is yes, but only a very, very little bit. Okay, lightning is very, very highly charged. This charge will attempt to flow down to the ground. The problem is air is an insulator so it's got to flow through something.

The way you can get electricity to flow through air, so that the voltage gets big enough, is if the electric field gets big enough, you can rip electrons off the air, they can then fly through the air and bash other electrons off. You've got a big conducting path which electricity can flow down.

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It's a bit like a wire and the lightning bolt can go down through this path. The air gets very hot, and you get thunder and lightning. The shorter this path has to be, the better the conductivity route up before the lightning has to start, the easier it is for lightning to form.

Lightning tends to strike the lightning rod before it will strike something below the lightning rod because it is an easy path to get to Earth. So you're friend would be an ever so slightly better route for the lightning to go than you are because she's got this big metal rod down her back. Actually, compared to air, you're a very, very good path, so it's going to be a trivial difference and if she actually had a big sharp, pointy thing coming out of the top of her head, that might have more of an effect but I very much doubt that she has.

Answer 2

No, surgical implants do not attract lightning. Lightning strikes are mainly attracted to taller objects, such as trees, buildings, and towers, due to their height and ability to conduct electricity. Surgical implants are typically made of materials that do not significantly increase the risk of attracting lightning.