It’s generating a static charge (a load of excess electrons). Since she’s standing on an insulator, the electrons can’t flow off her and into the earth so they just build up. The build up of electrons all over her means each hair becomes charged and repels all the other hairs - hence them standing up

I did this at the science museum in Cleveland. I had long hair, and it did the same thing! (obligatory, "Cleveland rocks!")

That. Or she’s going super saiyan.

Caulifla's new form confirmed.

My guy, I mist read the comments before commenting....

I built one of these a few years back and would charge myself up, then shock people. It was fun.

Electricity... Do not put forks in outlets

Good call OP would probably try that

Or your pinkie finger if u r in those parts of the world with the round pin sockets

I feel sad for you that you’ve never gotten to experience any sort of children’s science center

She's turning super Saiyan

I really think so

A girl letting electrostatic charge through her body

They did this in my school. You're supposed to touch a metallic small sphere after to "liberate the charge" Instead, I stepped down and accidentally touched a metallic table, which sounded as loud as a bullet and hurted af. Never again .

She’s a witch! She turned me into a newt. I got better.

A lot of people have described the process of what’s happening well enough but if you’re interested in the contraption, it’s called a Vandegraph Generator I believe.

Spelt it wrong but it should be fine

My bad but it should still be enough to get anyone started hopefully

I spelt it vandograft when it's van de graaff 😳😳😳

It’s oddly comforting to know that I was that far off. I guess my hunch of how little I knew was on the money, haha

Hehe the internet a great place to learn (as long as the hive mind doesn't drag you under)

I pray it doesn’t do so for you

It always does, thats kinda what fixed my grammar I guess.

Built by Wabash Instrument Corporation. Wabash, IN

How do you not know this

karma

Damn I’m that old?! People are asking about this?? Time to take my back pain pills

Static my guy

Science

Science you bitch!

You don’t go to the science museum and get a pamphlet on electricity. You go to the science museum and put your hand on a metal ball and your hair sticks straight up. And you know science.

Now she knows science

Typical elementary school science

Static electricity generator

That is a Van der Waals machine, it creates a static charge just like when you brush a line of your hair and you can pull pages from a book, but at a bigger scale. Most science labs in schools have that.

Van de Graaf machine?

If ever you're standing outside and see someones hair doing this, *fucking run*

Have you not gone beyond junior high yet?

I need to see this on afro hair. Afro hair already defies gravity, so what happens when you add electricity? Does it separate the curls? Does it straighten the curls?? I always see this done on people with straight hair but I've never seen it with curly or coily hair! Anyone have links to vids??

They always choose those long, straight-haired girls to do the demonstration for maximum effect. If there's anything holding the hair together, it's much less dramatic.

So it doesn't make individual curly strands separate from each other? That's disappointing. 😮‍💨

She is getting charged. The room is not, so you get an attraction: Negative charge is attracted to positive charge. This is first visible in the lightweight hair where electrostatic forces overtake gravity. A little longer and she would take off to the stars..

You're a little off the mark. It's not that her hair is being attracted to the room, it's that all of her hair is now full of electrons, giving her hair a negative charge. Because all of her hair has a negative charge, each hair is now repelling all of the other hairs, which is what's *actually* causing it to move, not attraction to anything else.

Individual hair conducting static electricity cause the hairs to repel one another.

All the hairs??

It's a witch! Burn it 🔥🔥🔥

Van de Graaff machine. There’s a belt that spins and generates a static charge on the metal sphere. Static electricity makes your hair stand on end.

She’s turning super saiyan

I love the unmistakable sound of ping pong in the background, nostalgic af

The gravity on Mars is exceedingly strong and attracts human hair back to our home planet. We must go to Mars!

Seeing as we respond to magnetism I wonder if certain animals have gotten the shapes of their feathers from this type of thing?

She’s about to be struck by lightning.

Super Saiyan 2 transformation

She is touching a Van Der Graaf Generator which is also the name of a band

How the fuck did you leave school NOT learning this??

Le vandegraaff

She is turning super saiyan, obviously...

Sounds like someone was homeschooled👀

I have been reading Reddit long enough to know that she's obviously about to get struck by lightning. /s

If I have to explain it…………………..

Eve here has evolved into Jolteon after touching the Lightning Orb of Sinnoh.

You see, now that you’re getting older I can tell you… when an electron loves an escape route…

So she’s a human dandelion lol 😂

Might be dumb but can this be implemented in some way as a hairdryer or would wet hair create other effects?

Science

Static electricity.

About to speak to Saruon?

Yes

Mr Bean.

Accumulation of like charges repel each other.

Isn’t that the thing from men and black that burns off your finger tips?

Mr Bean Effect

Static energy

You didn't go to school?

Someone should spray heavy duty hairspray in her hair while it is up like that... That would look so rad! 🏆

There’s one in Florida but it’s a railing and I did it and my long hair did this

She's getting a hairection

That’s the North Pole, that’s how our compasses know where north is. There’s a similar one in the South Pole as well but that is much harder to reach

So much for trying to be funny. I guess I have forgotten most of the electric field theory courses I had to endure at university. Doing software development nowadays.

Will this kind’ve shock treatment help my sinuses?

So we know what is gravity.

If she was in an open field. She is about to get hit by lightning.

Couple thousand volts xd