>>13882739No, it wasn't. The point of the video was that the "ENERGY DOESN'T FLOW IN WIRES" which is a "Big Misconception About Electricity", both things taken directly from the title of the video.
The vast majority of the energy absolutely does flow in the EM field directly in and immediately around the wires, i.e. takes the path of the wires, especially in a DC circuit like the one described.
If you don't understand transmission theory, the correct way to model the situation is pic related.
The only reason *any* energy takes the "short way" across is because in an ideal world, closing the switch on a perfect battery and zero impedance wires creates a perfect step response which contains infinitely high frequencies. These high frequencies are able to radiate directly across the free space to the load, like radio waves do, rather than travelling "the long way" through the EM field surrounding the wires. The experiment Veritasium describes is set up in such a way that the magnitude of this radiated energy exactly and perfectly cancels the energy travelling "the normal way" through the wires, so it *looks like* the wires have no effect. But as people have mentioned, if that were true generally, you could easily violate causality by placing a switch in the wire a light-second away.
It's only in this one contrived example that it *looks* true, and even then, only because he hasn't analyzed the circuit correctly (hence his own PDF source proving him wrong). So it's completely untrue to say that "ENERGY DOESN'T FLOW IN WIRES" or else we wouldn't need the fucken wires, and the only people with a "Big Misconception About Electricity" is this Veri-autism retard and the 10 million people who blindly believe everything some smug dipshit says.
