Can Electricity Flow through Flash?

Would you believe that electricity can enter through flash ? We cannot say it will but it may.
An incident proves the above statement.


A teenager went for a study tour with his college friends and for their journey back to college ,they were waiting for a train . The boy wanted to take a group photo. As he could not capture all his friends , he moved back and clicked.


He failed to notice a 4000 volts electric line which was passing above his head. Guess what happened? His fingers and his body were almost completely burnt. He was taken to a nearby hospital but could not make it more than one and a half days.

Actually camera flash is not a conductor of electricity. But Faraday's law may be roughly stated as  "A changing magnetic field creates an electric field".Ampere's law roughly states that "A changing electric field creates a magnetic field".


So , according to Ampere's law the electric lines produced a high electromagnetic field of 40000 volts and the boy was shocked heavily when he clicked the camera flash.So please be aware of your surroundings when you take a snap.


Happy Surfing!