How does the Million Volt Demonstration work?
The power company supplies electricity to our homes at 60 Hertz (cycles). The human body’s electrical firing frequency for operating the muscles is approximately 25 cycles. (This accounts for the rumble you hear when you clench your teeth while plugging your ears.) The 60 cycles from the wall socket so closely resembles the 25 cycles of the human body that when we touch it we get shocked (our bodies are “in-tune” with the energy- do not try it!). The Million Volt Demonstration pulls power from the wall circuits, runs it through a converter converting it into 65,000 cycles and cranks up the voltage. We accomplish this using several pieces of equipment including an Oudin Resonator. The one-million volts leaves the transformer with enough amperage to kill. True, before it reaches our scientist’s body it loses some of the amperage due to the frequency change and interaction with the iron core of the transformer (known as hysteresis losses), but enough amperage remains to kill several hundr
