Veritasium's Big Misconception About Electricity video and the point about Poynting

We discuss Veritasium's video "The Big Misconception About Electricity". In the video Veritasium asks the question of when the light bulb in a extremely long circuit will actually light.

This point is well discussed already in several videos, see this one in particular for a good explanation of the quiz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRkaRusln2w&t=261s

We focus more on the strange nature of Poynting's vector.

Griffith and Feynman's standard textbooks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Electrodynamics
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_27.html

Alternative theories
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1819932
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3456567

Poynting plots
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1302733
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3679838

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