If I touch an electricity source (let’s say a phase wire) with my index finger, and another very conductive material with my little finger, will the current go only through my hand?

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Or will it nevertheless go through my body and wreak havoc like it normally would?

I’m not actually planning on conducting (pun intended) this experiment, just wondering whether the electricity could be “guided” through the body in any predictable way.

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Answer 1

People keep saying “path of least resistance” and that’s just wrong. Current will travel through any path it can. If your feet are also grounded, electricity absolutely will travel through your body. The key here is that electricity will *favor* a path with less resistance, so more current will go through the shorter path, but by no means does electricity only take one path when there are multiple options