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Alveoli are basically small air sacs in your lungs, so they're a surface (it's just an inverted ball, a hollow sphere in a not-so-solid object).

No idea how that influences where the electrons go.

I wonder how the nervous system would interact with that as synapses fire. I'm curious if they would build up, or if the synapses all over the body firing would make them bounce around constantly.



> Alveoli are basically small air sacs in your lungs, so they're a surface

> No idea how that influences where the electrons go.

Electrons don't specifically move toward surfaces, they move to be as far apart from each other, so internal surfaces don't count significantly. Saying they move toward surfaces is only true for convex objects (and they are evenly distributed when the object is a sphere).

In the human body, they'll move toward extremities: hands, feet, tips of hairs, ...

The latter is an easy to observe effect of static electricity, charges will apply pressure on the hairs and make them straight so they are as far away from the rest of the charges as possible. See the first image here for example: https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/how-does-static-...




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