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IS ELECTRICITY MADE UP FROM MOVING ELECTRONS OR MAGNETIC PHOTONS?

CliveS
Electricity moves at the speed of light; a fact that is easily verified.  But particles like electrons require infinite energy to get them up to that speed??     Please look at attached link for a possible explanation and its implications for astronomers.      
http://magnoflux3d.wordpress.com
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    Electric fields in copper wire move at something approaching the speed of light.  But not actually at the speed of light.  Since an electric field isn't a solid object, it can go at up to the speed of light with no problems.


    Electrons move at the speed of a tortoise; a few centimetres per second.  Electrons have a mass, albeit a small one.  It takes a large particle accelerator to get them going at anything like the speed of light, and they are certainly not going to do that in a copper wire.
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    Yes, Simon, it is not the electrons particles that are moving but the magnetic photons that are able to vibrate/rotate through the spare holes in the outer electron enclosure shell.  We were all taught that electric current is made up of electrons moving but this is an  incorrect model as amps are 2 dimensional comprising of a current [x] at rightangles to the magnetic flux[y] giving us an area of flux-current [x,y] or Î amps, that can rotate as magnoflux turns. 

    If we apply a voltage at rightangles in the [z] direction we get power VxÎ Watts. If the voltage is not perfectly at rightangles then a CosØ reduction will occur.

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