Re: Ball lightning caught on tape!

ngdbud <ngdbud@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

: latteraly. Besides, Why would the electricity bother to run through a
: human bady only to go back to it's startting point, the ground? Seems
: pretty ify to me.

The way I think about this is to think of a circuit with parallel
resistors across a voltage source. If one of the resistors is much larger
than the other, the current through the larger resistor is much smaller,
but is not 0. Current traveling from the water, through a person, to
ground is another, much higher resistance path from the current traveling
from the water to ground directly, but there is still current in that
path. If the current is large enough, it can cause problems with the
body, or even death.

Hope that helps,

Joe

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