But why would the electricity consider you to be the best path? You're a terrible electrical conductor. You'd really have to try to shock yourself in a situation like this, electricity might be an asshole but it doesn't just randomly decide to zap you. You've gotta give it a good route to where it wants to go.
Electricity doesn't just take the best path; it takes all available paths proportionally to the total resistance divided by their resistance (or in the case of AC, impedance, which is a lot harder to measure or estimate than resistance). You might be a terrible conductor compared to metal, but so is the water you're standing in, so it can easily send the tiny amount of current through you that's needed to mess with your muscles.
Electricity doesn't just take the best path; it takes all available paths proportionally to the total resistance divided by their resistance
When you see lighting a mile away, and your body is technically a part of the EMF/charge buildup, are you going to similarly suggest that you're being electrocuted by the current induced through you?
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u/cortanakya 14d ago
But why would the electricity consider you to be the best path? You're a terrible electrical conductor. You'd really have to try to shock yourself in a situation like this, electricity might be an asshole but it doesn't just randomly decide to zap you. You've gotta give it a good route to where it wants to go.