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Jasen Betts
 
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Electrons travel way slower than light speed. Slower than walking speed as
a matter of fact in a conductor.


Okay, I tell ya what. We gonna get some wire, a good power supply and a
light bulb. We'll string out, oh say, 1/4 mile. You get the fastest car
you can find, hell, get an airplane or a rocket if you want. I'll throw
the switch and if you can get whatever vehicle you find to the other end of
the wire before the light is lit I'll give ya $100,000 if you loose, you pay
me the $100K. Deal? Hell, I'll even give ya a head start....


Which would prove what exactly? I could do the same with a piece of string
strung out over the quarter mile, and that doesn't mean I can pull on the
string to move it at a rate faster than you can drive.

just because the signal reaches the end of the wire doesn't mean it's the
exact same electrons coming out one end that went in at the other a fraction
of a second earlier, because it isn't.

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Bye.
Jasen