Tell that to the high voltage power lines I go for bike rides under… There’s no visible ionization, but I can feel tingling in my hands and sometimes nuts…
You’re experiencing the other part of electromagnetism: the magnetic field. As you and your bike pass across the magnetic waves, a charge is induced on you and your bike. You’re feeling what it’s like to be the rotor of an electric motor, or the other side of a capacitor, or the secondary coil of a transformer!
Tell that to the high voltage power lines I go for bike rides under… There’s no visible ionization, but I can feel tingling in my hands and sometimes nuts…
You’re experiencing the other part of electromagnetism: the magnetic field. As you and your bike pass across the magnetic waves, a charge is induced on you and your bike. You’re feeling what it’s like to be the rotor of an electric motor, or the other side of a capacitor, or the secondary coil of a transformer!
Yeah it’s not enough to heat up the air enough to arc, likely because the vast majority of it is going through the conductive wire it’s supposed to be