Ryan, when you're talking about living beings, nothing has really sense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DBNj5ShEM7U0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DTMV94ZV1xSc

is just about how can you understand something, without feeling the emotion
as other guys does by experimenting it. It's not about philosophy, but the
real life.
Do not do this at home.

Vasile


On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Ryan O'Connor <rocifier@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks that makes sense.
>
> On 29 March 2015 at 04:00, Sean Breheny <shb7@cornell.edu> wrote:
> > Regarding skin resistance: the resistance from point to point on the
> human
> > body, measured BELOW the skin, is quite low, on the order of 10 to 100
> > ohms. Typical low voltage, multimeter resistance test of sweaty skin is
> > about 100k ohms, which indicates that the skin is a pretty good
> insulator.
> > However, if you were to break through the topmost layer of the skin
> > (stratum corneum - can be removed by gentle abrasion, even accidentally=
),
> > you would see the resistance drop to a few k Ohms. If a high-ish voltag=
e
> > (say even 50V) is applied to this, there will be heating effects locall=
y
> > where it contacts the skin and this may be enough to cause the skin to
> > break down further, allowing higher current to flow, causing more heat
> > generation, etc. until the skin is completely broken down at those poin=
ts
> > and current is flowing at high levels limited only by the internal body
> > resistance. This runaway process can happen in a fraction of a second i=
f
> > high enough current is available.
> >
> > So, in summary, the point-to-point body resistance is highly nonlinear
> and
> > dependent on the duration of contact and many other factors.
> >
> > In any event, the human body is not really a SHORT circuit by most
> > definitions of short circuit, but it doesn't have to be to allow seriou=
s
> > injury or death due to electric shock.
> >
> > Sean
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