PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — What makes a pickle glow? A Portland State University professor is investigating.
If a pickle is mounted on two metal forks and plugged into a socket, one end will glow. However, the physics behind the glow has been a mystery, PSU explained.
Josh Méndez, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at PSU, recently learned that the mysterious glow stemmed from an unsolved electrostatics problem.
From there, Méndez “felt called to delve into the pickle jar,” PSU said…