Welcome to Understanding Overunity!!!!!

[MileHigh]

For starters, the simple model for this is a voltage source in series with two resistors.  The first resistance is the internal resistance of the battery and the second resistance is the wire.  The total resistance is low, so that means a lot of power is being dissipated.  Of the two resistors, the higher-valued resistor will dissipate more power than the lower-valued resistor.  I am assuming right now that the internal resistance of the battery is the higher-valued resistor but that would have to be double-checked.

If you were looking at the voltage across the battery it would drop considerably.  I am going to guess about 0.3 volts due to the shorting wire.  You measure the voltage across the wire/battery to determine the current.

Then the wire itself is like a small furnace with constant heat production.  The wire heats up to the point where the heat production is in balance with the heat dissipation.  If the balance point temperature is too high then the wire will melt.

Naturally the high current through the wire and the battery creates a strong magnetic field for a single wire.  However, since there is only one loop, not that strong as compared to a multi-turn coil.  You might be able to feel the magnetic field with a magnet in your hand.

The inductance of the single-wire plus battery current loop is very small but with the high current for a while you are storing a small amount of energy in the magnetic field created by the current loop.

MileHigh

[Dave45]

The wire heats from the center out, where amperage and voltage meet, if electrons only moved in one direction the wire would start heating at one end and move around the wire.

[Dave45]

Wind your wire into a coil and do the same test.

[Qwert]

The wire heats from the center out, where amperage and voltage meet, if electrons only moved in one direction the wire would start heating at one end and move around the wire.

"Where amperage and voltage meet" ? What are you talking about? Do you understand, what are you talking about? ?? Amperage and voltage don't meet , but we also can't say that they go together. See http://amasci.com/elect/vwatt1.html

[onthecuttingedge2005]

an idea is not a theory, only when it has mathematical proof is when it's theoretical, only after testing and re-testing does it become a theory.