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Can you guys help me understand electricity and current? What happens in this scenario?

>have shit loads of wire laying around
>get elon musk to run me some cable up to the moon and hook it up to a lightbulb
>one end of the wires is hooked up to the bulb, I have the other ends
>I am holding a battery
>I connect the battery to the wires
>????

The moon is 1.25 light seconds away. That means something at the speed of light traveling from the earth, to the moon, and back to the earth, takes 2.5 seconds. Part A on the diagram is the current flowing from the battery to the bulb. Part C is the current flowing from the bulb to the battery. Part B is the bulb turning on.

So, what happens?

>the current, A travels 1.25 seconds to the bulb, and C travels 1.25 seconds from the bulb to the battery, and the bulb turns on 1.25 seconds after I connect the battery
>the current A travels 1.25 seconds to the bulb, B the bulb turns on, and the current C travels 1.25 seconds back to the battery. Light bulb comes on at 2.5 seconds.
>the circuit is completed, the entire field interacts with it at once, and the lightbulb turns on instantly