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When you send an electrical signal down a wire, it's not sending an electron traveling from one end to the other, it's propagating an electromagnetic wave and as such travels exactly as fast as other electromagnetic waves.
The only difference is that those waves travel different speeds in different materials; in a vacuum it travels ~299,000km/s; in a wire it can still travel pretty damn close to vacuum speed (pending on the characteristics of the wire).
So *technically* we're introducing more delay by using wires. The issue is extracting a useful signal.
With wires we can shield them from EM interference and be pretty sure that if the signal goes " 1010101" that it's not just random noise but an actual generated signal.
With wifi, you've got nothing to shield your signal from the noise of the environment. That means you have a bound on how fast you can send your data. The less delay you leave between your data bit transmissions, the easier it is to dirty the signal.
When I read stuff like this, Immediately I think of AI and the advancement of space travel and Physics. When your talking about wireless and the core essentials of how the technology works I'm immediately drawn in to a world of superstition and the existence of ET.
Now the reason being. No one will truly know in the public domain of what tech the military has and or Governments of the world but I'm fascinated by the concept being a future optimist of what is yet to be discovered and or invented.
If we look at the world of Physics, and how computer science currently is; based on a platform of 0's and 1's and the physical world of hardware. We as humans are probably one of the most advanced species on this planet but saying that when I was watching a documentary about Biological Physics and the evolution of Human kind I very excited; so be not in my life time but to find out how the future of Human kind will evolve.
Now the reason I'm saying all this rubbish to most people; is because we are still evolving and if we take the concept of Physical Biological Physics and look at how will Computer science evolve with our understanding I'm genuinely interested in knowing more on how the future of the likes of AI will turn out or the tech of everyday human lives.