{"id":2449,"date":"2003-07-27T22:02:36","date_gmt":"2003-07-27T12:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2010-09-30T17:19:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T07:19:49","slug":"the-path-of-least-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2449","title":{"rendered":"The Path of Least Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even very clever people, when talking about things outside their speciality, sometimes get things wrong. I&#8217;m reading Professor Mike Orkin&#8217;s\u00a0<em>What Are The Odds?<\/em> and discover on page 15 this statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Just as electricity follows the path of least resistance, chance follows the path of most likely.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicely said, but the first clause is just not so. If there are two paths, both with equal voltage applied, then the electricity will take\u00a0<em>both <\/em>paths. It will take them in inverse proportion to their resistances. So if one path has a resistance of three ohms and the other six ohms, then twice as much current will flow along the three ohm path as that which flows along the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even very clever people, when talking about things outside their speciality, sometimes get things wrong. I&#8217;m reading Professor Mike Orkin&#8217;s\u00a0What Are The Odds? and discover on page 15 this statement: Just as electricity follows the path of least resistance, chance &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}