Is Electricity Instant? A Shocking Experiment from 1746
Season 53
About the Episode
How fast does electricity move – and why? In 1746, a French physicist electrocuted a large group of monks to learn about electricity, and he concluded that it moves with “infinite speed.” That wasn’t quite right, but it would take decades to figure out the real answer and its reason.
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