Why power wires sometimes ‘dance’ to an undetectable breeze Share on Facebook Print article On these quiet, still days, as winter plods on, Alaskans tend to notice any movement outside their windows, such as dancing power wires strung between poles. The answer as to why the wires bounce is in Neil Davis’ “Alaska Science Nuggets.” First, though, a refresher on that book — a compilation of 400 of these columns — and why you are reading this right now. Neil Davis was a do-all scientist at UAF’s Geophysical Institute from the 1960s to the 1980s. He started this column in 1976 at the urging of a newspaper editor.