The Fan Cord: Does electricity travel faster than light?
This was probably one of the most controversial subjects in the story. When GPI elongated the fan’s power cord to sew the universe together, it stretched across the the entire universe, a span of about 18 billion light-years. Thus when power was finally supplied to the outlet, the electricity had to travel all the way across the universe, and back, to reach the fan for a total of 36 billion light-years. Consequently, we were told the fan would not receive power until AT LEAST 36 billion years had passed. There were some who didn’t think the flow of electricity worked this way. There were many varying accounts, but the crux of most of the objections had to do with a few assumptions some people had, that A) flow of electricity has nothing to do with the speed of light, or B) electricity should reach its destination “instantaneously”, and there should be no delay. Without getting too bogged down in the science of electric current, I will just state one fact that should clear this up. Noth
