Oh, no. I just meant to highlight that it was a physically incorrect picture. Metallic conduction doesn’t remotely resemble the “electronic cellular automata” picture, any version of which would get the right answer only accidentally, I agree. A calculation based on information theory would only care about the length scale of signal attenuation.
Even for the purposes of the cellular model, the mean free path is about as unrelated to the positional extent of an electron wavefunction as is the de Broglie wavelength.
Oh, no. I just meant to highlight that it was a physically incorrect picture. Metallic conduction doesn’t remotely resemble the “electronic cellular automata” picture, any version of which would get the right answer only accidentally, I agree. A calculation based on information theory would only care about the length scale of signal attenuation.
Even for the purposes of the cellular model, the mean free path is about as unrelated to the positional extent of an electron wavefunction as is the de Broglie wavelength.