Is the speed of email faster than light speed?

Yes. This is why you will usually continue to get e-mails from your professor despite the fact that you never see them. read more

No, the internet you have is conveyed via radiation, of which the speed is equal to the speed of light, or through wires by moving electrons, whose drift velocity is less than the speed of light. (This is obvious since electrons have mass. read more

But in 1994, a Mexican physicist, Miguel Alcubierre, theorized that faster-than-light speeds were possible in a way that did not contradict Einstein, though Dr. Alcubierre did not suggest anyone could actually construct the engine that could accomplish that. read more

Although fiber optic cables theoretically carry data at the speed of light, in reality there are reflections and other physical characteristics that slow it down. read more