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Had to truncate the title. Is anyone here familiar with the concept of grounding?

• stareatgoats 3y ago
  There was some knowledgeable discussion last time the page was posted, August 29 last year, 66 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32640848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32640848
  • chillingeffect 3y ago
    Wow, the confident misassertions in some of those comments! Fortunately many of them were able to be attenuated. Thx for the link. I see two key questions: 1. How does static electricity inside the body interact with the inside? 2. How to measure the current out of the mat? As pointed out on the prev discussion, it is non-trivial bc the voltage is large and the current is small.
• wsintra2022 3y ago
  Read the book by the dude who came up with it many years ago when I was in Australia. I walked everywhere for a while barefoot after that. The conspiracy being that someone somewhere knew about this so they created footwear as insulators to disconnect us from the earth, maybe the devil invented shoes! Hide those hoofs ;)
• agumonkey 3y ago
  Electric imbalance "may" theoretically interfere with your own body biological processes, so people thought being connected to ground to rebalance things a bit would be beneficial. I don't know anything about the reality of it, but, there's Michael Levin's research reviving bioelectricity as a very important layer in tissue level logic (morphogenesis).. so who knows how important it is to ensure a good electrical state.