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carpet or even on dry concrete, floor. How this charge gets accumulated
continuously and never gets discharged?
Answer: See at end under "research" for charge generation methods.
In your case rubbing or "triboelectric effect" is almost certainly the main
mechanism.
So for a fixed charge, halving capacitance means double voltage, and voltage is
a squared factor in energy.
Charge is stored in capacitance. That's a whole area in its own right - but your
body has a capacitance if typically 100 pF to ground - see Wikipedia body
capacitance article. The objects attached to your body that generate most of the
charge have low capacitance compared to that of your body. Charge is stored in
proportion to capacitance so your body acts as a reservoir for the charge
"generated" by your clothing.
You will feel pain from "shock" when discharge energy rate and magnitude fulfill
some complex relationship. If the discharge current is too low you will not feel
pain or shock sensation.
Touching clothes etc to a grounded object provides a very high resistance path
to ground so charge transfer is slow. Charge does flow from your via clothes to
ground but the all imporant enegy transfer rate is low.
If you touch a grounded object wit part of your body then charge stored on your
body has a low resistance path to ground and you will be much more likely to
fel "pain" than if the discharge path was low resistance. If you touch hair or dry
clothing to ground, the discharge path resistance may be 10's to 100's of
megohms and you will feel no pain 0 even though these objects generated the
charge that your body stored.
1000 V on a 100 pF capacitor contains about 0.1 millijoule of energy !!! - and
you may feel the discharge. A 10 kV voltage on 100 pF stores about 10 mJ or
energy and you WILL feel the discharge if you touch ground.
If a group of 6 or so people all hold hands and shuffle across a static inducing
carpet and one person extends a finger and touches an unattached person then
all 7 people get a substantial shock but especially the two at the main contact
point. Ask me how I know :-).
Warning: When fully charged it is a bad idea [tm] for the finger pointer to touch
a filing cabinet with their outstretched finger !!!. Ask me how I know :-). In the
latter case the filing cabinet will be a large capacitance in its own right and at
ground potential due to leakage via its path through its base and carpet etc.