I can Move faster than the speed of light . . . . !!!

hollywoodrox

Well in a roundabout way 
  

When I switch the bathroom light on I can switch it off again before it comes on.
  There’s a slight delay on the light coming on . I assume there is a capacitor that charges up before going to the LED’s . I know diodes stop electricity travelling a certain way but I can’t see this causing the delay. I can’t remember much from my ham radio exam in 1988 these days 

darthed1981

Well everybody can in Star Trek...

Kittyfrisk

Freddie, is that you? 

" I'm burning through the sky

Yeah!

Two hundred degrees

That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit...
  I'm traveling at the speed of light"...

Shrews

But can you move faster than the electric shock that will zap through your body if you keep fiddling with that light switch?

Sporky

We're all very proud of you, poppet.  

dano

Mains is rectified  to DC, a post-rectifier cap will be charged which is smoothing out the DC, then  LED comes on when the conditions are stable for the driver IC

The science bit....You're ability to switch it on and off is quicker key than the time constant to charge the cap to 1/2CV^2.

dano

At a quantum mechanics level you may be quicker than the light, but in a parallel dimension you're too slow

WezV

You need an upgrade to IOL

Petepassion

darthed1981 said:

Well everybody can in Star Trek...

Their ship had three ears

Kurtis

The final front ear was the biggest. 

strtdv

Technically that's faster than the electrons which travel at about a third of the speed of light from memory (and in circuits generally travel much much  slower than that)

Sporky

strtdv said:

Technically that's faster than the electrons which travel at about a third of the speed of light from memory (and in circuits generally travel much much  slower than that)

Signals propagate at about a third to half the speed of light. Electrons drift very slowly indeed.