Reply to post: Static?

Geiger counters are so last summer. Lasers can detect radioactive material too, y'know

Nick Kew

Static?

The article describes ionising molecules in the air. But doesn't a bit of static do that too?

Could it possibly be that the boffins have done an experiment in a controlled environment, but that in the real world their effect will be dwarfed by what you're wearing, and the carpet?

And what happens in a thunderstorm, when everything is ionised?

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