Electric Energy Is Carried by Fields Around Wires
Veritasium · Explainer · YouTube title: The Biggest Misconception About Electricity
Why it's here
Often recommended as an eye-opening field-based explanation of electricity, though it was also controversial and criticized as pedantic.
What it covers
Veritasium argues that electric energy is carried by fields around the wires rather than by electrons moving through them, using a thought experiment with a large circuit.