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IS ELECTRICITY MADE UP FROM MOVING ELECTRONS OR MAGNETIC PHOTONS?

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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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    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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