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If what you're saying is true, how do you explain those videos of people playing with Tesla coils while wearing chain link suits?
That's essentially a wearable Faraday cage. The metal suit acts as a highly conductive shield. It forces the electrical current to safely travel around the outside of the body rather than through it. That's why stainless steel or chain mail is used specifically.
So, the electrical current is forced to travel around the outside of the body because it's attracted to metal?
It is not attracted to metal. Metal provides excellent condition for the current to travel across the suit rather than the body. There is no magical attraction force.
same reason why lightning rods are copper or aluminum -it's to conduct the energy to ground better.
You can keep describing it in different, more technical terms if you want, all you're doing is making yourself more correct, not making me less correct.
Of course you and I know "attract" isn't the correct technical term, but that's the term OP used and there's nothing wrong with adjusting your message to communicate the same idea using words your audience will understand.
A lay person thinking "electricity is attracted to metal" still holds an accurate mental model of what can be expected. OP wanted to know if their mental model was correct, not whether they used the correct terminology to describe it.
'Obviously it would attract lightning' was and is incorrect. I pointed that out and explained what actually happens. I am also a lay person. I was just explaining what I know in response, and clarifying with replies.
No, you're calling it wrong, then describing the same thing using different words and asserting that your description is right and the other is wrong. Whether you say "metal conducts electricity" or "metal attracts electricity" doesn't matter when the idea you're expressing is, "electricity can be expected to go where metal is."
Either way, I don't have the time or the inclination or be pedantic with strangers on the internet regarding matters I already understand and ultimately don't matter.
Good luck to you 👍
Everything I've said is objectively true. Good luck with your pedantry .