Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "The Big Misconception About Electricity" video.

11:45 If that's the correct answer then what about if the wire is cut at both ends of the loop (at 300,000 km away) either before or at the same time the switch is flipped? By your logic the light should turn on for at least 0.5 s and then turn off again. This is despite the fact that there's no continuous path for the current to flow. Is that correct?
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@custu2814 I've since seen ElectroBOOM's video on this. What would happen is that the bulb would turn on at a partial power and then after 1 s then power would either increase or decrease depending on whether the ends of the wires are cut or not. However, one should note that if instead of having long wires close to each other one has large circular loops of the same length the situation would be different. The the capacitive connection is much weaker and the initial effect of flipping the switch is much, much weaker even though the battery and the switch are still close to the bulb. Thus I think this video was maybe a little bit misleading though I understand that one can't always fit all the relevant points in a single video.
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@bornboss9199 "if you cut the wire then to have just disrupted the electromagnetic field buy cutting off the electrons" The point was that the effect of that cutting cannot be felt 0.5 light seconds away until after 0.5 s has passed.
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