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  • Oh apologies with a missed detail. The battery+switch and the lightbulb are 1 meter apart and are connected by a wire that is 1 lightyear long.

    Assuming that electricity is only carried inside the wire (like our conventional understanding and models expect), yes it does break the speed of light but electricity doesn't actually travel inside the wire but in the electric field around the wire, which gives the wire near the battery to affect the wire near the light and create a tiny voltage difference, thereby nearly instantly lighting the lightbulb that reaches max brightness on any voltage differential.

  • So conventional models describe electricity as flowing through the wires at the speed of light, (this model is extremely useful but doesn't accurately describe the underlying mechanism) so it makes sense that it would take 16 years in the aphla centauri example (8 years there and 8 years back) for the information that the switch is closed to reach the lightbulb, and that is what happens irl. The full voltage does take that much time to travel the distance BUT because electricity and moving electrons is more complicated and is carried by the electric fields, some of that electric field reaches across the gap and puts a tiny voltage across the lightbulb, which in his example immediately turns on to full brightness at any voltage difference.

  • Yeah, basically Derek didn't unpack his definitions very well at the beginning and led to a lot of confusion and incorrect assumptions by others, but at least 3 other channels did replicate the experiment and did find the slight voltage jump across the wires faster than the full voltage along the wire.

  • Not exactly misinfo but definitely based on some slightly less than honest setups.

    Like the speed of electricity video. He was technically correct that his hypothetical instant lighting lightbulb would light up when the first tiny bit of current crosses the gap using EM waves, but it didn't quite account for our general understanding of lightbulbs work and it wasn't adequately explained that the lightbulb didn't act like a real lightbulb, unlike the hyperreality of the rest of the setup in the hypothetical experiment.

  • The amendments aren't like laws, there's no punishments written in them however they're directives to what the government can and can't do. For example the 13th amendment restricts the use of slavery in US jurisdictions with the exception of punishment of crime.

    Like I said the only crime listed in the Constitution is treason, everything else is about how the government is supposed to run and what limitations it has.

  • The only crime listed out in the constitution is treason.

    The rest of it is explaining the roles and duties of the various branches of government, and the supremacy clause says that the Constitution, the federal legal code and any treaties are the Supreme laws of the land.

  • Porn in the sense of something that is the sort of over the top example of a thing that elicits an almost aroused response. Like a gratuitous picture of food would be considered FoodPorn. Or like 2 perfectly machined pieces of metal fitting together perfectly would be EngineeringPorn.

  • You're right that performi g agreement and disagreement are certainly not equal on Twitter, but there is also the concept of ratio-ing where tons of quote tweets and replies compared to few likes is usually a good indicator that people are disagreeing.

  • Dems don't have the same expansive network of propaganda machinery backing them up no matter what like Republicans do. Don't get me wrong dems are still wholeheartedly a capitalist political party but they aren't working the shaft and fondling the balls of the capitalist class nearly as much as the republican party is and it show in the ability to get messaging out.

  • I'd wager its also got something to do with how prevalent soy is used in various Asian cuisines, so like anything even remotely tangentially related to China is also a commie plot to take over The West(tm) in addition to the whole "soy mimics estrogen" thing.