[–] Gimbal 17y ago ↗ "Electrons remain, doing everything they do best (switching), while photons do what they do best (traveling very, very fast)." - brilliant, no? [–] jganetsk 17y ago ↗ This is the way things work now. Electrons move very slowly, but the electric field (photons) travels at the speed of light... and that's what carries the information through a conductor.
[–] jganetsk 17y ago ↗ This is the way things work now. Electrons move very slowly, but the electric field (photons) travels at the speed of light... and that's what carries the information through a conductor.
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