We discuss Veritasium's video "The Big Misconception About Electricity". In the video Veritasium asks the question of when the light bulb in a extremely long circuit will actually light.

This point is well discussed already in several videos, see this one in particular for a good explanation of the quiz.

   • Explaining the Veritasium "The Big Mi...  

We focus more on the strange nature of Poynting's vector.

Griffith and Feynman's standard textbooks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introdu...
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.e...

Alternative theories
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.111...
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.111...

Poynting plots
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.111...
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.111...

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