Timeline for How long would it take for electricity to flow from one terminal to other, via a 1 LY long wire?
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| Mar 22, 2013 at 12:19 | history | edited | Waffle's Crazy Peanut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 22, 2013 at 10:40 | history | protected | Qmechanic♦ | ||
| Mar 22, 2013 at 10:36 | answer | added | Rokoge | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 20, 2011 at 3:31 | answer | added | David Cary | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 17:59 | comment | added | Georg | Who is downvoting here all answers in this incompetent manner? | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 14:50 | answer | added | user1355 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 14:21 | answer | added | John McAndrew | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 13:26 | comment | added | GJ. | @Georg: Clearly... :) | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 13:07 | comment | added | Georg | @GJ Sometimes the right "wording" or associations to wellknown fields makes the knack, doesn't it? | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 13:03 | comment | added | GJ. | @Georg: +1 I agree with you 100%. :) | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 12:54 | comment | added | Georg | Such a wire has some capacitance and inductance per length. Nobody can cange this values for a "interstellar" wire. This is just a one turn-coil with a huge diameter, not more, not less. Any old radio ham will laugh at this thread. | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 12:33 | history | edited | user2482 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 11, 2011 at 12:07 | comment | added | GJ. | @Philip Gibbs: even if this is possible the delay still exist! The EM force between electons trevel with light speed. | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 12:04 | comment | added | Philip Gibbs - inactive | It is not possible for a wire to have zero capacitance. If you make this assumption you will run into paradoxes. This is analogous to the question about what happens when you push a long perfectly rigid rod at one end. The question is nonsensical because relativity places limits on how rigid a rod can be. | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 12:03 | comment | added | GJ. | @wayne: About your edit: Ahhh... You are wrong... only electrons at the very begining of the wire end will start immediately. | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 11:19 | history | edited | user2482 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 11, 2011 at 11:06 | answer | added | GJ. | timeline score: -2 | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 10:07 | comment | added | Mark Eichenlaub | related: physics.stackexchange.com/q/335 | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 9:55 | history | asked | user2482 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |