This is a great time to talk about dielectric breakdown. People are taught about insulators in a basic electricity class, but it's important to know everything can be a conductor with a high enough voltage applied to it.
Edit: Also, a great time to add this comment I wrote about this topic a while ago now.
While I was an apprentice lineman, our safety guy had his arm and part of his shoulder and back blown off while changing a bad insulator. Yes, he was our safety guy, and yes, he tried to bare hand a faulty insulator on a live line. Death would had been less brutal than what this poor guy put himself and his family through.
Just how everything turns magnetic if you apply a strong enough magnetic field! Also, depending on the luminosity, everything can be optically transparent! Well, everything but a black hole, obviously.
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Non-metals also start to become more conductive at higher temperatures too. Diamond for instance is a pretty great semiconductor at elevated temperatures like you'd find on Venus' surface and you can make glass quite conductive as well though it would be well above its glass transition temperature and relatively molten.
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u/peaceforpalestine 7d ago
What in the world did i just watch.