It doesn’t, really. The wire vaporizes into plasma, and if the pulse is fast enough, the Lorentz force hold the plasma together. The rest is non-trivial high-voltage engineering. The original ...

When currents in wires run parallel, the wires attract due to the magnetic fields from the currents and the Lorentz force. The currents can also be run anti-parallel, making the wires repel. Place the ...

And I looked over and saw the guy's arm go up and I thought, oh, well,” said Lorentz after practice on Wednesday. “But no, that happens. Again, I didn't try to take his legs out. I was just ...