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From: leichter@yale-com.UUCP
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Subject: Re: speed of electricity
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Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 15:17:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 27 15:17:39 1983
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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