It's obviously a popular text, but the second paragraph includes a link to the actual paper; you could have saved yourself some searching by simply clicking tha

It's obviously a popular text, but the second paragraph includes a link to the actual paper; you could have saved yourself some searching by simply clicking that: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15635 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15635 As for the "rate faster" sentence, you are misinterpreting it. It's referring to the amount of charge transferred per time unit, not speed of propagation. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm%27s_law Reduce R and I goes up.