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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Anonymous 0 Comments

To add to the other comments – one concept not commonly understood about electricity – it is pulled, not pushed.

Amps (the measure of electrons flowing in one point of a circuit) are a result of the pull.

Volts are the degree of the momentum of the pull.

Watts are the product of the two.

Resistance is a variable of a circuit.

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