Re: Expressing fractions

From: Mark Browne (news_at_kafana.demon.co.uk)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:36:46 GMT

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, In message <345k9hF44mi7aU1@individual.net>, Harlan
Messinger <h.messinger@comcast.net> writes
>
>"Don A. Gilmore" <eromlignodNOSPM@kc.rr.com> wrote in message
>news:345h66F43fjteU1@individual.net...
>>
>> Electricity takes the shortest path of least resistance.
>
>I addressed that theory with my analogy with multiple resistances in
>parallel. The electricity in that case doesn't just take the path through
>the shortest, smallest resistance, it flows through all of them. I'm asking
>why the case with the human body is different.

It isn't. Think of the human body as resistors in parallel, but the
long path going through the heart is a very high resistance. 

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