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Electro Luminescence Is God in the Room
Francis Hawkesby was hired by the Royal Society of London to be their experimentalist. His job, essentially, is to produce cool experiments for weekly get-togethers. He notices that if you do the usual producing static electricity thing, rubbing a piece of leather or cloth against it, then you start getting a bluish purplish light. Ewan: It's a way of showing off God's powers in nature because that's what all of these guys think.