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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lodbrok" data-source="post: 21851196" data-attributes="member: 558599">A Faraday cage blocks electromagnetic radiation of certain frequencies, depending on the size of the holes in the cage. EM radiation is carried by photons. Lightning is not EM radiation. Lightning is a whole bunch of electrons trying to get from high in the atmosphere to the ground. This is much more akin to an electric current as would flow through wires in your house. Since a Faraday cage only works with photons and not electrons this is why equating lighting to a radio signal does not make too much sense. Since an antenna is really designed to take the energy in photons and turn it into current, it is not designed in a way to draw lightning to it or through it. Lightning could travel down an antenna however the current would simply jump to your car's chassis when it reaches the end of the antenna s this is the easiest way for the electrons to get to the ground.</blockquote>

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