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He sets up the parameters so that the bulb would turn on by that little electricity That's the bit where he's factually wrong. He's made this illogical world
by causi 5y ago
He sets up the parameters so that the bulb would turn on by that little electricity
That's the bit where he's factually wrong. He's made this illogical world where the tiny amounts of electricity in field lines well outside the wire trigger the lamp but the leakage current and other sources of current don't. If you're going to be pedantic about something you have to be pedantic about the whole thing, damn it. Veritasium's video is like saying "water flowing through pipes is a LIE" because some molecules of water make it through the various seals and diffuse across the outer surface of the pipe.
- unbanned 5y agoI'd say most of his videos fail in similar ways.
- bagels 5y agoAlso an absurdly long superconductor.
- formerly_proven 5y agoThe experiment can be made to work (light bulb actually lighting up ~instantly at a significant brightness), just not with a 12 V bulb. > Veritasium's video is like saying "water flowing through pipes is a LIE" because some molecules of water make it through the various seals and diffuse across the outer surface of the pipe. Not at all.