Professor Edward Bazelyang, a doctor of Russian technical science and a lightning expert at KrzyZhanov Electric Power Research Institute, said five years ago that it was impossible to tell how many people were killed by lightning in Russia, not because of secrecy, but simply because there was no one. There are people in America. According to the statistics of insurance companies, there are about 600 people every year. Now this number has changed a lot, increasing to 1500. Is that thunder and lightning looking for someone to attack like a beast?
Sometimes lightning is really a bit like a living thing, and the lightning rod can't do anything about it. Whenever the traditional way is blocked, it will detour from the ground and approach the target from the bottom up. So what attracts the "living thing" of thunder and lightning to attack people? No one can figure this out yet. Some scientists blame this on the male hormone testosterone. Because 86% of people who have been struck by lightning are men, what is the magic of male sex hormones? In a group of people, people with more testosterone are more likely to be struck by lightning.
People who have been struck by lightning can still live. After lightning enters the human body, its behavior is also puzzling. It should be said that tens of millions of volts of charge and hundreds of thousands of amperes of current can kill people in an instant, but some people have survived, and there are not a few such people. For example, there are nearly 900 such people in the United States every year. Not long ago, an international organization named "People who were struck by lightning" officially announced this situation. Nelson Hendriel, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, said that sometimes lightning doesn't even leave any traces on people's bodies, but it will penetrate internal organs, or on the contrary, it will only pass through from the outside and burn people's clothes and shoes. Dr. Hendriel has also heard of such a thing: the sweat on the person who was struck by lightning boiled and the whole body was covered with water vapor. Others were struck by lightning, and the coin in the trouser pocket turned into a silver ball. Other people's necklaces and zippers at the opening of trousers were sintered to pieces ... however, they all survived.
Nerves burn like wires. The results show that people who are struck by lightning can survive because powerful current sometimes "breaks through" the whole body in a few millionths of a second, so they can't always burn to ashes. The key is to look at the average resistance of organs and tissues in the body of 700 ohms. The greater the resistance, the more serious the consequences. According to Mary Ain Coupel, an expert and resuscitator who specializes in lightning damage at the University of Illinois in the United States, when a person is struck by lightning, the first thing that "catches fire" is the nerve fiber, that is, the circuit in the body, but at most, its protective film is damaged, which is very similar to the insulator in the wire. After being hit by lightning and returning to normal, people don't even feel any change. Sometimes it takes months to feel it, and then the nerve fibers start to "shorten" and touch in some places where they shouldn't, which is why some people have such changes after they survive. But things are getting better. A Czech man named Jan Glovacek said that his impotence was cured after being struck by lightning. According to Mary Ain Coupel, it was because his spinal cord was short-circuited, and as a result, new contact appeared and the transmission of nerve impulses responsible for erection was restored.
Lightning strikes can mutate people. Sometimes, lightning hits people directly on the head, and the consequences are much more serious. Your eyes may burst, and you may be unconscious and completely lose your memory until you act strangely. According to Dr. Hendriel, one of her patients "recalled" his childhood after being struck by lightning and acted like a 2-year-old child. Another person lost his memory for a short time, and he couldn't find what he had just put away. I looked at the tomographic photos and found that lightning disconnected a large part of these people's brains. However, as usual, its injuries were scattered in several places at once, and scientists now call it "Swiss cheese head". This means that the wound, that is, the "melted" part, spreads out like a hole in cheese. No one can predict where the "hole" will appear because the path of atmospheric current in the brain is unfathomable. However, one thing is clear. The abnormality of the person struck by lightning is related to his position. There is a man named Harold King in Missouri, USA, who is famous in that state. Because he is no longer afraid of the cold, he only wears a vest in winter. Eileen Wald of England has become particularly sensitive to smell. She bet that she can find something that has been touched before by the smell. Gunter Lunger of Berlin also performed his newly discovered mathematical genius at the scientific seminar. This man can actually calculate the multiplication result of six figures in his mind accurately. In other words, lightning strikes may mutate people. But what's more interesting is that the brain hides the potential to make itself more perfect.
Lightning strikes can give some people special functions. In the summer of 2004, Russia's * * * Youth Pravda called some amazing people with perspective function to perform stunts in Moscow. Some of them said that they didn't discover their abilities until they were struck by lightning. Unfortunately, some doctors use advanced instruments to determine what has happened to these people's brains, but they completely ignore this. According to Nelson Hendriel, there is no such person with special functions among his patients for the time being, but there is a female patient who can erase the magnetic strips on credit cards and tickets by touching them with her hands. He examined the patient and found that his frontal lobe was damaged in many places. Another patient with many "holes" in the left temporal lobe said that he could feel electromagnetic radiation. He can also judge whether the wire is charged.
On June 18, 2005, Russian Youth Pravda also published an article entitled "How to turn a mortal into a genius", in which it was mentioned that scientists' experiments showed that if some individual sections in a person's brain that act as safety valves are disconnected, his working ability can be improved.