[Scott Dorsey]

Brutus wrote:

By the by Cardas speculates that electrons are not traveling thru the wire, but that they pulse
(bump each other) sending the signal through.??


It's not speculation. By the end of the 19th century it became clear that
electron flow was much slower than the speed of a wave travelling through
a wire. This is the discovery that pretty much started the whole field of
solid state physics.

Thinking of it as electrons bumping one another isn't really all that
accurate a model; electrons aren't physical things that occupy a constant
space. But it's a reasonable enough way to think of it and good enough for
engineering purposes.
--scott

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