Reactance is a Silly Thing while Resistance is Dead-Pan Serious without any Sense of Humor.
Oddly enough, a path of lowered reactances combined with elevated resistances is the path of least resistance to send current back into the voltage source. »
Provided that there is no competing branch of drainage of lowered resistance which lacks any reactance which could allow the sharing of current between these two branches. »
But if this competing branch of drainage should have its resistance raised a little, then the current will choose to exclusively travel this non-reactive pathway. »
I’m willing to gentlemanly bet that this is what empowered Tesla’s Pierce-Arrow; not “Cosmic Forces” unless we deem these forces to be the mysterious forces of electrical reactance.
There is merely one caveat that I can see and interpret from the use of Paul Falstad’s simulator in these three examples. And that is: that their numeric parameters must not be taken to be literally what we’re supposed to build. They’re merely indicative of what reactive behavior is capable of whenever reactance is designed in a broadly thematic manner.
This is how I gain my training: by interpreting patterns of behavior while ignoring trifle details of legitimacy or practicality.