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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Pretty much like how clogged roads behave. More cars will move on a 4 lane highway than on a parallel sand road when each car just picks the first spot on the road it can find.
Electrons are repulsive to each other.
High resistance usually means there are not a lot of spots for electrons to go to, or they are stalled by hitting atoms. How ever if there are still electrons in the path new ones can’t follow because they are pushed back. So they pick another path to get to the lower potential.
Imagine having a bunch of small marbles in a funnel and a very steep and a less steep ramp at the exit. They will go on both ramps, but the steep one will move the majority of marbles.
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