"Richard Clark" wrote
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On Sun, 31 May 2009 17:19:43 -0500, Bruce W. Ellis
wrote:

You have yet to manage how long it took for ONE electron to travel
end-to-end on Hertz's first loop.

Another way to put this:

The actual mean drift velocity for electrons at any reasonable curent
is quite low because there are so many of them in the conductor.
However, the electric wave driving them propagates at he speed of
light appropriate for the medium.

Hi Bruce,

Well put to the point above, but for my money Stephan probably
couldn't follow through to a numerical solution. Retirement appears
to have him drifting through newsgroups; gracing us all with the
enlightening questions of an acolyte pondering the eternal mysteries.
If he were a monk begging for rice, he would starve at this rate.

Art, on the other hand, is like a monk with a gallon of gas....

You are right when you are writing about antennas and me. I hope that my
"enlightening questions" make that you (engineering people) start to press
on teachers to stop teaching about Maxwell model (transverse waves).
S*