RIP: Betty Holberton - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Dec 2001

...
  > If the speed of an electron in a wire is equal to
the speed of light (IIRC,
...
  > it's slower than light), then an electron
will travel about 11.80 inches in
...
   one
nanosecond, which is the point Hooper was trying to illustrate.  
 It's the electric field that propogates, moving electrons are a side effect. 
...
  The average speed free electrons in wire is such that
they essentially never 
...
  get from one end to the other.   
Wait a doggone minute, I know that's not right, I distinctly
recall seeing a film in school of a wire as a pipe and ball-
bearings as electrons... they go in one end, they come out
the other...

...and they're blue.