Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!yale-com!leichter From: leichter@yale-com.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup,net.micro,net.physics Subject: Re: speed of electricity Message-ID: <1678@yale-com.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 15:17:39 EDT Article-I.D.: yale-com.1678 Posted: Mon Jun 27 15:17:39 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jun-83 23:33:52 EDT Lines: 7 More to go with my previous note: You ask how long it would take a "bolt" to travel some distance. The only meaningful interpretation I can make is that you mean a lightning bolt. I've never seen any figures on the speed of propagation for lightning flashes through the air, but it's a very complex process in which the air is heated & ionized; the propagation rate would be well below lightspeed. -- Jerry