How does electricity know where to go/where the path of least resistance is?

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My wife and I were talking about the best way to avoid getting struck by lighting, and I was saying you want to avoid being the path of least resistance by staying in your car, or making yourself a small ball and staying on your toes when my wife asked this question.

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electricity doesn’t flow through the path of least resistance. If that were the case a power plant would send all it’s power to one load. It flows through all available paths in a rate proportional to each path’s resistance.

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