Re: Expressing fractions

From: Harlan Messinger (hmessinger.removethis_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:03:54 -0500

Mark Browne wrote:
> 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.

It's the same resistance as a path from a finger on one hand to a finger
on the other hand, if the wires are held one in each hand. Same
distance, same composition encountered over the course of the path. The
trip in is the same, the trip out is a mirror image.

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