I’m a bright layman who took physics for BA majors.
Not my strength. I’m not an idiot regardless of what many think. LOL.
Seems to me the basics are fairly simple . . . intense radations of some type of ‘RF’ for lack of better term . . . cause impulses in wires to build up—including heat—that overloads the ability of the wires or components to hold together and continue functioning.
Is that a wrong understanding?
You don’t have to understand the physics involved in great detail. Both the USA and the USSR tested EMP weapons so we have a fairly good idea of their affects on modern electronics. CodeToad has his buried in the sand, not much can be done about that.
Yes, it is wrong. The ONLY EMP susceptible devices are those connected to very long wires that can transmit the pulse over time. An EMP pulse is extreme short in duration and relatively weak, therefore it takes a very long wire to gather enough voltage from an EMP pulse and transmit it to a connected device. Hence, the ONLY EMP victims have been long wire devices.
Here’s a puzzle for you: If EMP “kills all thing electrical and electronic” (As EMP prophecies claim) how, years before the discovery of EMP, did we use electronics and electrical devices to gather information on nuclear events? We had seismographs, cameras, nanometers, voltmeters, ammeters, Geiger counters, X-Ray spectrometers, naval ships with RF radios, electrical generation systems, light bulbs, you name it, there were all kinds of sensitive electronic equipment, yet, … they worked. They recorded all kinds of nuclear and non-nuclear measurements. How was that possible since EMP is supposed to destroy all things electrical and electronic?
I believe we are dealing with a seriously low self esteem here. I simply asked a question and the guy jumped down my throat. Probably unwise to continue any conversation with assumptions being made like that.