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Yes. As a more common example, fiber optic cabling is known to transmit information significantly faster then copper.


The speed of fibre optic cabling has more to do with signal integrity and bandwidth than any difference in propagation delay. In fact, in some cases a signal can travel faster on a copper wire (0.8c) than it can through an optical fibre (0.6c).


I am sorry if my experimental setup was not clear.

Copper is clearly a different medium than fiber optic.

That is why I stipulated a single medium for the experiment.




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