one of those dimmer lights for example if i put it on low the transfer rate will be slower but if I immediately hit the max it will be faster?
No. Energy always travels through a medium at the same rate. The amount of energy you put into the light bulb won’t change speed the light is going between the emitter and the surface it reflects off.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Well. It depends. And I’m not talking about relativity, set that aside.
The time it takes electrical power to get from a source to a destination (for example) isn’t instant, nor a constant. In practice, it’s affected by all sorts of initial conditions and their state through time, like impedance along the line. Or, more practically, what very complicated PWM voltage controllers are doing when you flip a switch.