Eli5 How can high voltages push you away or is that a movie thing?
In: Biology
Yes and no.
Being shocked will cause muscle contractions which can cause a person to jump. I was once shocked when I grabbed two bare conductors of a three phase circuit, I had stepped out of the room to get something, when I came back someone had flipped the breaker – I found myself on my butt a few feet back from where I started, no injuries.
Then of course movies are for show, they tend to greatly exaggerate such things. Just like when someone gets shot in a move they show them being hurled backwards, that does not happen in real life.
There is no force from a high voltage shock that can push you away, only the reaction of your own body.
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