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this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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I recall Tom Nichols making a video on them and also perhaps an incorrect video about electricity so probably.
The electricity one wasn't so much him being wrong as it was him being really bad at communicating that one point
On the electricity video, he was actually correct. It was mostly a matter of semantics and people clinging to the common models of electricity.
I’m not really sure it was just semantics. He was technically correct the light would get some power right away, but the thing everyone would understand when hearing the main assertion, i.e. the light is fully lit and the circuit is in its relatively steady, final state, is very much not true.