I have encountered several articles and posts saying that what electrocute you and cause death is actually not the voltage but the current instead but is not clear to me how this works.
In: Physics
* What *actually* kills you are the electrons burning up your flesh and vital organs.
* Voltage is like the amount of pressure being put on those electrons.
* The higher the pressure, the more likely they will flow through you body and burn you to death.
* However current is very much like a measure of how many electrons are flowing per second through you.
* So if there is a high current then by definition there are lots of electrons flowing through you and burning you.
* So you can have a high voltage but if there are only a very small number of electrons at that high voltage, then they won’t do much damage.
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