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This comes up often when talking about ECC. Does a Faraday cage not work against high velocity charged particles?
by willis936 6y ago
This comes up often when talking about ECC.
Does a Faraday cage not work against high velocity charged particles?
- evanb 6y agoNo, faraday cages do not protect you from high speed charged particles. For that you need meters of water equivalent.
- ludocode 6y agoCosmic rays are not just photons. A faraday cage is meant to block electromagnetic fields; it won't do anything to stop leptons. In my university labs I remember an experiment where we were detecting cosmic ray muons that would travel through a series of stacked lead plates. You didn't have to wait long before recording an event. These particles are big and fast and you need quite a lot of shielding to block them.
- user-the-name 6y agoA Faraday cage will also do nothing to stop an X-ray or gamma photon.