ZAP!
When I walked into my physics class this afternoon I was surprised to see a large, metal, mushroom-shaped machine sitting on my teacher’s desk. A miniature version of the lightning-making machines you can see at the Boston Science Museum, this Van de Graff generator could produce an electric field that would harmlessly shock us, providing all of us nerdy seniors with a bit of fun for the end of the day.
That is, if it was working…
My teacher explained to us how the metal dome at the top of the machine was fairly dirty with fingerprints, and the oil was absorbing a lot of the shock that we should have been feeling. Instead of rays of miniature lighting connecting the machine to our fingers, we had to settle for only tiny cackles of electricity.
Oh well. Our superhero fantasies of zapping away physics homework with our lightning powers had to be dulled a little bit.
While watching my fingers spark, I started thinking about chiropractic. The machine was actually a model of a subluxated person! The machine itself was just like the brain of the person, trying to send its lightning messages to the body—all of us students! But the oil from the fingerprints on the dome was getting in the way of our fun, dulling it, just how a subluxation reduces a person’s quality of life.
Who wants to settle for a measly spark? I want the ZAP! That’s why I get checked
