
Originally Posted by
moon4pie
As a programmer, I have been wondering.... How do electric arcs find the path of least resistance towards the opposite charge, without trying all alternate possible paths ? Has this question been answered already by science ?
The only possible answer that springs into my mind, is that all points in space are somehow linked directly, through hyperdimensional space. I know it's rather science fiction than actual science, but it does provide a somehow logical and mathematically valid answer.