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?
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Well where would it go? Through your body and back into the wire? Electricity takes the path of least resistance and the wire is much less resistant than your body. So almost all the electricity will stay in the wire and extremely little goes through your body if there is no path to ground or back to the power source through the body that shortcuts large parts of the circuit.
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