I’ve always heard that electricity follows the shortest path – for instance, lightning will use your body for a conduit if you’re the tallest thing around. How exactly does that work?
In: Planetary Science
The same way water knows the shortest path. The same way gas knows the shortest path.
A huge number of natural processes work on the principle of something flowing to where there is less of it from where there is more of it.
A substance simply going from where there is more to where there is less will naturally do so in the shortest unobstructed path.
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