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umm, light and electricity travel at the same speed ... ? Light travels at ~299m/s. This will slow down in a medium like fibre, but it's still faster than any
by 2muchcoffeeman 13y ago
umm, light and electricity travel at the same speed ...
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Light travels at ~299m/s. This will slow down in a medium like fibre, but it's still faster than anything else.
At best, in a particle accelerator you can accelerate electrons to maybe 0.8, 0.9 c?
- ekianjo 13y agoSurely you mean 299 000 000 meters/ second ?
- 2muchcoffeeman 13y agoYes!
- retrogradeorbit 13y agoYes, but the electric field that forms as a circuit closes travels at the speed of light.
- 2muchcoffeeman 13y agoI am not sure what you are talking about. When you push data down a wire you are definitely not close to c. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_delay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_delay