How Electricity Actually Works

Correct "Signal Propagation" with integrity is ALWAYS a concern. "If it is not? You may have chosen the wrong hobby.

I have chosen an advanced degree in solid state physics and a career in semiconductors and batteries. You may want to pick someone else to chant your voodoo perceptions of how electric fields work.

Are you "Really" going to try to argue that there would not be any appreciable change in that systems functionality, if a full accounting and then following that a correction was applied?

 

I most certainly am. We are discussing audio and human beings. Everything you mentioned can be reduced to simple parameters that can be used to evaluate performance at audio frequencies and the distances involved. 

We build nanometer scale semiconductor devices now. Billions of transistors on a chip. We make nanometer scale materials and membranes for batteries that change the chemical and electrical interactions on that same scale. Do you really think we don't understand electricity and materials well enough to understand with sufficient detail wire for analog audio?

Strange how my speakers measure and sound extremely well. No hiss or hum my ear within an inch of the tweeter or mid yet my power cable and balanced cable run parallel, even strapped together with velcro for a distance. The way some think here nothing should work or I should be getting nothing but distortion. My cables are generic nothing expensive or special about them maybe that's the reason everything works and sounds great? 

pingstonsmile, there is a YouTube channel called Kathy Loves Physics & History that goes into such things as why most of the world uses 50 Hz 220V and the US and some others use 60 Hz 120V.

All of it is very interesting and she is writing a book on it all...and how it all came about since the early days of electricity. 

@jea48 

In all of the books of electronics and electrical engineering, the electric signal through the conductor is the ordered motion of electrons

I think it’s great he made that video and got people like me thinking, even though it was a little misleading. In his follow up video he makes it clear that the bulb will by no means come on full strength right away, and that the early effect will still occur even if the circuit is open somewhere way out there in space. Once that was made clear I was reminded of when I first learned about transformers, how they could transfer power without any direct physical connection between the conductors. I was amazed at that, but also disappointed that they tended to be noisy and inefficient.

On another controversial claim seen in a YouTube video, the notion that you can make a wind powered car that can go down wind faster than the wind still messes with my head.