I didn't attack people, an entire channel's audience, and members on this forum.
What member of this forum am I attacking?
Anyway, the first time I heard the term "audiophool" was from you. I thought that those were tagged with that moniker because, as the name suggests, they aren't considered exactly smart people. Then I came across the "idiot assembler (sic) programmers" (EEVBlog#45). Perhaps that was just a joke that I missed, but then you compared the faith of religious people with the beliefs of the audiophools (EEVBlog#833 @38:05), which I totally agree. For the record I'm not a religious audiophile assembly programmer, but those examples encouraged me to give names to people who cannot, or do not want to, accept that their claims are bullshit, especially in light of scientific evidence. It is clear now that this move only proved that I'm wrong. I should have foreseen it. It was my fault. Sorry about that.
You make it sound like all this is so plainly obvious, that it's all obviously settled, and "how dimwitted Mehdi's audience is for not noticing this", that Mehdi " do not deserve our respect and should not be addressed as engineers".
Yet here you are saying that it took you all this effort to figure it all out watching the video countless times, reading, re-reading, studying, double checking etc ![Roll Eyes ::)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif.pagespeed.ce.XcUK202Yqt.gif)
I make it sound obvious because I understood Lewin's answer as soon as he posted his first video in response to Mehdi's first video (the one you posted). However, when Mehdi posted his second video, implying that Lewin has wrong "beliefs" about electromagnetism because they were divergent from Mehdi's own wrong conclusions; asserting categorically that Kirchhoff holds for varying magnetic fields; and claiming that Feynman and Belcher agree with him, among countless other false claims, we had to go deeper into the subject and debunk point for point. Not to say about Mabilde's videos and other false claims from members of this forum. This only strengthened our understanding of Lewin's answer.
You obviously don't need to do all that research we did to solve Lewin's exercise.
And now we are simply take your word for it that this it's all settled and it's obvious Mehdi is completely wrong on every point etc, so much so that we shouldn't respect him as an engineer?
Sorry, but I'm going to play along with that.
You should never take my word for it. Go out and investigate for yourself. I learned those words with a famous video blogger which I really respect (exactly because of those words). Please feel free to check the video references, the references in Feynman's lectures. Draw your own conclusions. I'm just pointing things out (together with expressing my opinion, albeit not exactly popular, I can see it now).
This is not a trivial argument that even the most experienced and well educated engineers understand, in fact the argument has been going on decades.
This discussion was settled long ago. Lewin's experiment is in fact right. The "discussion" keeps going on because people insist that KVL holds for any circuit. But this is an illusion provided by the fact that Kirchhoff's laws, or better saying the modern version of it, can be applied to an awful lot of circuits under certain special conditions that we take for granted.
When this circumstances fail, Kirchhoff (KVL, KCL or both) is not valid anymore. You have to resort to Maxwell's equations. Lewin's is one of those circuits. Transformers, inductors, generators, motors, transmission lines, antennas, etc. can only be explained by the same approach.
Lewin's experiment is all about identifying exactly when and where Kirchhoff's laws fail. We have but to thank him eternally for that.
Mehdi had every right to question Lewin's experiment, because without excruciatingly detailed investigation it seems like a dodgy setup to demonstrate his point.
Mehdi has the right to question. But his second video is not about questioning. It is about decreeing his (lack of) understanding as a proof of his "theorem". He even ends his video writing the words Q.E.D.
We did what you recommended and didn't take his word for it. We went out and investigated for ourselves and the result was not pretty I'm afraid.
And from what I can see there still seems to be debate on this forum about the exact applicability and implementation of the demonstration.
And from what I saw in Lewin's videos he didn't really even attempt to break down and explain why Mehdi is wrong.
I think Lewin did. It is clear to me. But if you believe Lewin didn't, rest assured we did. It is exactly this thread. Please stay around. We perhaps have some more debunking to do, which will make it all very clear to you, I guess.
Although I must confess, I'm running out of time to contribute lately. I only decided to stop by because of the shocking news of Sredni's banning. At a certain point I thought of doing a video entitled "Debunking the debunkers: why Mehdi and Mabilde are wrong and Lewin is right." or something like that. But first I need to find time.