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*Rolls a pen against my chin*
Mmm... What would that have to do with the electricity itself?
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My only thought is that it's due to how cells split based on electrical fields. Maybe they're always trying to split, but they can't without a forced cell splitting. Or maybe it's just a source of energy that gets used to fuel the split. It's hard to know.