When you measure the flow of electrical power along a cable, the energy travels close to the speed of light, yet the electrons drift very, very slowly in compar

When you measure the flow of electrical power along a cable, the energy travels close to the speed of light, yet the electrons drift very, very slowly in comparison. Electrical power is transported as a fast-moving density wave in the electromagnetic force between many electrons and protons, the former drifting slowly. Not by the electrons themselves, as if energy were attached to them. The force responsible for transporting the energy so much faster than the electrons themselves move, is comprised of photons (bosons not fermions)...