#TruthBeTold
#electricity #wire #physics #science #telephone #SpeedOfLight #latency
The truth is...
The speed of electricity through a copper telephone wire is less than 5% of the speed of light.
#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)
(photo Attribution: Rembert Satow, wikimedia commons File:Birds_on_telephone_wires_at_Beeston,_Nottinghamshire.jpg)
@trinsec
>"I guess that counts for most things."
Maybe.
At the macro level that's true, but things are composed of other smaller things. The small things often travel at relativistic speeds; photons, quarks...
I'm not sure how many of each elemental particle there is in the universe or what speeds they all typically travel at, but it may be that most things travel near the speed of light.