Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site petrus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!bellcore!petrus!mwg From: mwg@petrus.UUCP (Mark Garrett) Newsgroups: net.sci Subject: Re: Question about Electricity Message-ID: <662@petrus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 11:47:18 EST Article-I.D.: petrus.662 Posted: Wed Oct 30 11:47:18 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:17:17 EST References: <621@hlwpc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc Lines: 13 ++ > If you put a live electrical wire into a large > swimming pool, what happens to the current? This is just an educated guess but, I would think that the current would flow from the point of the end of the wire to the ground in a quickly widening cone. Since the electons repel each other, the main current would take up as much of the conductor as it can while still having some component in the direction toward the ground. In addition, there might be eddy currents all over the place, especially if it is AC or (worse) lightning, which is why you would probably get electrocuted no matter where you were in the water. -Mark