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by Linosaurus 484 days ago
Iirc I thought they were a bit disingenuous.

In theory the change in electric field will induce a small current in the other wire, and their magical science lamp turns on at any non-zero electricity. Whether the wires are connected or not at the far end doesn’t matter.

They never clarified how strong the other current would be.