if you touch a wire and you’re not grounded, you wont get harmed, why?

Question

I understand why you get harmed if you’re grounded, you’re becoming part of the wire and the electricity is going from you to the earth. what I dont understand is, why the electricity doesnt harm you when youre not touching the ground, isnt it going through you either way? how does it not affect your body?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Your body is already full of electricity (and ghosts for all I know, I’m drunk), so if you don’t give it a direction to flow by being grounded then it won’t flow (the lazy bugger). The flow is what hurts you by cooking parts on the way through