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how
fast is email ?
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It's pretty fast,
but not really super fast, sometimes slow, every once in a while really
slow, but not too often. |
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So,
how fast is email ? |
An email makes it to the other side of
the planet roughly, at the speed of electricity. |
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The
word electricity refers generally to the movement of electrons (or
other charge carriers) through a conductor in the presence of potential
and an electric field. The speed of this flow has multiple meanings. In
everyday electrical and electronic devices, the signals or energy
travel as electromagnetic waves typically on the order of 50%–99% of
the speed of light, while the electrons themselves move (drift) much
more slowly.
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Reference: |
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speed of light:
Miles per second: 186,000
Miles per hour: 671 million
From Sun to Earth (1 AU): 8.3 min |
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