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To: LibWhacker

Accelerating electrons? Don’t they move at the speed of light? What the heck?!


4 posted on 04/11/2015 10:38:22 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: Ken522

My bad - electrons don’t go the speed of light - my mistake, sorry everybody!


5 posted on 04/11/2015 10:40:50 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: Ken522

They (electrons) move at a high fraction of the speed of light. But, since they have mass they can never achieve the full speed of light.


11 posted on 04/11/2015 11:12:02 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Ken522

Nope, not at the speed of light in a vacuum, anyway. Even silver, best conductor in nature, slows them down a bit.


24 posted on 04/11/2015 4:58:24 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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