Nobody form no where.

When I turn on the hot tap in my kitchen it takes a few seconds for it to get hot. I guess the answer is 'No'. Even electrons move very slowly in wiring (copper or any other type), the apparent speed is analogous to cars shunting each other ; http://amasci.com/miscon/speed.html

Have I missed the point of your question ?

Well Kris, I'll will have to think about this for a bit.

No,

Doesn't your experience of the real world tell you this? Have you never stirred a cup of hot liquid with a cold spoon and felt the time it takes to warm up?

It doesn't even conduct electricity at at the speed of light, or transmit information that fast.

Have you any concept how fast light travels? Maybe a few quick sums may help get an appreciation of it.

Do you understand how big a million is...? We don't even live a million hours .

Del

Who was dumb enough to tell you that.

No.

The speed of heat conduction varies:

1. Thermal Mass of the hotter object
2. Thermal Mass of the cooler object.
3. Thermal Conductivity of the hotter object
4. Thermal Conductivity of the cooler object
5. Cross-Sectional area of the heat transfer, directly in line with the heat transfer from hotter object to cooler object
   
6. Temperature of the hotter object
7. Temperature of the cooler object
8. Material of the hotter object
9. Material of the cooler object

There are still more Variables, but those are the most significant.

If you are interested, refer here:

http://www.youth.net/nsrc/ejournals/ejou031.html#anchor998660

That should get you started.....

There is a notion called thermal difusibility which indicates how fast heat can be diffused in a material. It does not depend on temperature directly on not on the mass or the Cross sectional areas. It depends on temperature ONLY though its influence on thermal conductivity and capacity to accumulated heat.

I have the feeling that it is a confusion between thermal "speed" of diffusion and quantity of heat transfered.