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Slower than a snail's pace

By onlinemania

Slower than a snail's pace

You can flip a light switch and watch a lamp five feet away turn on in an instant. But to
watch a single electron travel from the switch to the light, you'd have to wait over an hour.
The speed at which electrons move through a wire is called "electron drift," and it happens
at around 0.1...
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