[causi]

He sets up the parameters so that the bulb would turn on by that little electricity

That's the bit where he's factually wrong. He's made this illogical world where the tiny amounts of electricity in field lines well outside the wire trigger the lamp but the leakage current and other sources of current don't. If you're going to be pedantic about something you have to be pedantic about the whole thing, damn it. Veritasium's video is like saying "water flowing through pipes is a LIE" because some molecules of water make it through the various seals and diffuse across the outer surface of the pipe.

[formerly_proven]

The experiment can be made to work (light bulb actually lighting up ~instantly at a significant brightness), just not with a 12 V bulb.

> Veritasium's video is like saying "water flowing through pipes is a LIE" because some molecules of water make it through the various seals and diffuse across the outer surface of the pipe.

Not at all.

[bagels]

Also an absurdly long superconductor.

[unbanned]

I'd say most of his videos fail in similar ways.