I have seen lots of electrocution videos where the victims get “glued” to the very object that killed them, like electricity poles, to the point that they stay in the air and not fall on the ground. How/Why?
In: Physics
Answer: Your muscles are controlled by electrical impulses. If you grab an electrified object, the electrical current may signal your muscles to contract, and so your hand would clench even tighter around the object you are holding. You’ll notice in depictions of this that the whole body becomes stiff, because all the muscles are being activated at once.
If they just touch the object with like a finger tip, then the force of their muscles activating would likely jerk them away from the object. Only if they had grasped the object would they become “glued” to it.
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