Re: info on magnetics moving.

According to what I've read, when a human body experiences a large electric current, two kinds of force appear. Once comes from exploding steam, and the other comes from contracting muscles.

When a small electric current "throws you", the current is operating your body like a puppet. This can be dangerous, since you can throw yourself against a solid wall, or fling your arms against a sharp object. Lightning isn't required, the same thing can happen if you touch a high- voltage source. Electrical workers sometimes bang their elbows when they unexpectedly bump against a live connection, and their arm muscles contract.

When the current is much larger, it causes the air within the spark to expand, and it might make the dampness of your skin explode as steam. Lightning has been known to blow the clothing off its victims, or knock their shoes off. This supposedly occurs because the lightning travels across the surface of the body, and damp skin in the path of the current is instantly boiled and produces high pressure steam. Expanding gas (or steam) produces the sound of thunder, so you might say that the thunder can tear your shoes and clothing off, if this thunder originates next to your skin!

For lots of info about lightning, see Dr. Martin Uman's book ALL ABOUT LIGHTNING, ISBN: 048625237X. He also wrote a second book about lightning reasearch for a technical audience, LIGHTNING, ISBN: 0486645754. Or see the websites at:

Lightning Webring
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=lightsitering&list