DIY Lightning Experiment! Make a SHOCKING Capacitor

If you really want to see some super coolness touch it with a fluorescent tube (preferable something like a T8 standard 4 foot tube). If you are already holding the tube and the "jump" is only from the capacitor to the tube it will not hurt you. The pain felt by us from static discharge is the plasma created burning us when the electricity breaks down the airs dielectric resistance. Point is, you can light up a fluorescent light in your hand with nothing connecting it to anything except your body to ground. Works even better with a legit Van De Graff device. Enjoy!