Our Boogeyman

Our Boogeyman There is a boogeyman within this home of ours, we swear he's here! He comes and goes to mess with us and bring about a silly fear. It happens if we're here or not; he seems to go from room to room to keep us guessing why we see phenomena that brings such gloom. It has to do with lights, you see, the kind you touch to turn them on; somehow this boogeyman knows how to toy with us, and whereupon, we find our touch lamps brightly lit in rooms, we enter while we're there. But worst of all, to find them on when we've been out, and such despair, to wonder how that comes about?? For sure, it doesn't make much sense. Do boogeymen have fingers that can generate capacitance? Sandra M. Haight ~4th Place~ Contest: Boogeyman Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron Judged: 06/02/2016 True Story! "Touch-sensitive lamps almost always use a fourth property of the human body -- its capacitance. [kuh-pas-i-tuh ns] The word "capacitance" has as its root the word "capacity" -- capacitance is the capacity an object has to hold electrons. The lamp, when standing by itself on a table, has a certain capacitance. This means that if a circuit tried to charge the lamp with electrons, it would take a certain number to "fill it." When you touch the lamp, your body adds to its capacity. It takes more electrons to fill you and the lamp, and the circuit detects that difference." http://science.howstuffworks.com