The Big Misconception About Electricity

The evidence suggests that only a few thousand years ago planets moved close to the earth, producing electrical phenomena of intense beauty and terror.

I'll probably regret this but can't help asking, What evidence?

And which planets?

Commenting on videos that you are not going to watch, and critiquing evidence that you are not going to see, is borderline demented. 

Again with the evidence. What evidence?

After your last waste of time video not about to waste another hour. If you think there's "evidence" why can't you just say so? I can explain clearly why it is bunk. At least give me a time stamp. Or are you saying the entire hour is evidence? What are you saying, anyway?

Yes, Venus and Mars are planets. Very astute. What evidence is there that only a few thousand years ago they "moved close to the earth"?

Calling republicans and evangelicals klansmen. Because you are so compassionate. Right.

The question was did they teach it. Not did you learn it. The meaning is educational standards have declined to such a dismal level you can reach adulthood now not having been taught basic knowledge that was once learned in grade school. That is a reflection on public education not you. Now if you want to act like everything is about you, well sorry. 

There definitely are magnetic fields around the current in a wire. This is why it is called electro-magnetism. The two go together. Whenever a magnetic field crosses a wire it induces a current in that wire. This is how electricity is generated in the first place, transmitted long distances at high voltage then stepped down with transformers, how cartridges generate a signal, on and on. This is also how antennas work, including the one in your cell phone. This is why RFI is such a problem. On and on.

This used to be the kind of thing they taught in school. Grade school. We would put iron filings on a sheet of paper, hold a magnet under it, watch the filings line up along the magnetic field lines. Then wrap a wire around a nail, attach to a battery, see the same thing with this electro-magnet.

They didn't teach you this in school?

Yeah, that's a good one. Watched it yesterday. Thought about posting. But then remembered. Nothing, but nothing, gets screwed up here more than electricity. 

Especially when it is true. Current flows in fields, which is why so many things like PPT eMats, TC, etc work. We don't know by what mechanism exactly, but it is clear it has something to do with fields.