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How Electricity Actually Works

In November of last year I posted a Vertasium YT vid titled "The Big Misconception About Electricity".  Well it caused quite a stir and like an arachnid had many legs many of which attempted to draw A'gonrs into the poison fangs!

Well, here is the follow-up to that original vid which caused quite a stir in the "intellectual" community as well.

Vertasium "How Electricity Actually Works".

 

This does have implications for our audio cabling...

Regards,

barts 

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czarivey
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@deludedaudiophile I didn't make typo.

jea48
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@deludedaudiophile

Thanks for the thoughtful and intelligent response. I still have a problem wrapping my mind around some of it. For one you can create a magnetic field from an electric field. And an electric field can be created from a magnetic field.

I am still a little confused what exactly creates the current in the conductor. I have read the EM wave energy creates it. The bigger the connected loaded to the source the greater the energy from the source is required. More energy the greater the current in the circuit conductor.

My understanding;

Energy is consumed by a load. Current is not. Current leaves the source and returns to the source. The EM wave does not flow in the conductor. Therefore energy does not flow in the conductor. The EM wave energy flows in the space between the conductors in one direction from the source to the load at near the speed of light in vacuum. Current returns to the source. Energy does not.

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