I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]
So, I genuinely do not get the &quot;controversy&quot; over the Veritasium video. AFAIU, the entire point of the video was to show that electricity travels not through wires but via electric fields (&quot;through the air&quot; so to speak).<p>To illustrate this, he sets up an experiment with parameters such that the conclusion can only mean that some electricity has traveled to the bulb before any could arrive through&#x2F;around the wires.<p>He sets up the parameters so that the bulb would turn on by that little electricity; but that is obviously just a visual sign, and his point is valid no matter how much electricity traveled to bulb under whatever different parameters.<p>It kinda feels like most people are missing the actual point of the video.