Obviously if we put live electricity in the sea, the whole ocean wouldn’t then become dangerous with it. At what point does the electricity stop? What stops it?
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Answer: Inverse Square Law
The distribution of the charge increases by the square of the distance – think of the surface of a balloon as it get bigger if it double in width, the area of the surface of the ballon increases by width to the power of 2 (the square).
So as potential charge is then distributed on a bigger and bigger area the further you get and pretty soon it is almost not there
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