When is it safe for electric current to pass through the body, and when is it dangerous?
I don’t mean quantity of voltage; I mean that is it dangerous if I were to hang from a live wire (aka not grounded), or if I am grounded is that dangerous? Is it possible to have electric current flowing through the body safely, then instantly die because you touch a ground/stop touching a ground?
In: Physics
If the current has nowhere to go, then it isn’t flowing through you. Specifically because of this, it *can* be safe to touch wires provided there is no ground, but this isn’t really the kind of thing you want to experiment with doing. After all, if there exists a path to ground that you don’t realize is there, the current will find it, and you won’t be able to marvel at the fascinating paths electricity can take from six feet under.
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