Monday, July 03, 2006

A mental blackout...

It has been generally accepted that the electrical field sets up in a circuit at the speed of light. Well then, for once, imagine an LED connected to a button kept 3 lakh kilometers away. The voltage is high enough to overcome the resistance of the wire. Now if I keep on sending pulses through the circuit by opening and closing the switch at rate of 1 pulse per second (i.e. switch is closed for just half a second), what will happen to the LED? Will it blink? Or will be stay put like the Ahmedabad traffic signals on Sundays?
Keep thinking guys...

Cheers!!!

1 comment:

OsKar Bebblebrox said...

whether it blinks or not is dependent on the perception of the viewer