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Tag Archives: speed of light
Speed of Light and Time
After 6 months, astronauts in the International Space Station would have aged about 0.007 seconds less that people on Earth. This is due to the International Space Station moving much faster than the Earth. Time itself will bend due to differences in gravity or velocity. Now what if an object starts to move close to […] Continue reading
You Could Be One Step Closer to Understanding the Size of our Solar System!
Have you ever felt that understanding the truly staggering size of the universe is unfathomable? With the help of this interactive website you can see first-hand the tremendous distances in just our own solar system! Starting from the center of our solar … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Blog Post #1: What would happen if you threw a baseball at the speed of light?
This web page gives us the answer. Basically, if any object with mass were moving at that speed, especially within our …
Light Travel Time: An Impediment to our Knowledge of the Universe
Despite common misperceptions, a light year is a measure of distance, not time. It is the only feasible way to measure distances in the universe because the universe is so vast that measurements of distance used on earth would quickly … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Lightspeed Activate!
The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second. Nothing that we know of travels faster than light, and that’s a good thing because everything we see depends on light traveling from the object to our eyes. Because light has to travel to our eyes, we always see things as they appeared in the past. […] Continue reading
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Different speeds of light
Although we often refer to “the speed of light” as a singular value (c = 299,792,458 m/s), the truth is that when we see light, it is actually moving slower than this speed. This is because the light we see is not moving in a vacuum, but through our atmosphere instead. Light moves at different speeds… Continue reading
The Cosmic Speed Limit
It was Einstein who only came up with his Theory of Special Relativity after having been inspired by a daydream of himself riding on a beam of light across the cosmos. What a journey that must have been, despite its fantasy; our only idea of what travelling at the speed of light may look like […] Continue reading
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If Light Travelled Really Fast…
According to prevailing theories in Physics, the speed of light, denoted by ‘c’ is a universal constant. It means that it is intrinsically related to the very nature of the universe. We exist because we are the culmination of almost fourteen billion years of conformation to this value by every single one of the atoms […] Continue reading
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The Speed of Light
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ The speed of light is a fascinating yet confusion concept. People frequently hear the term “lightyear” and assume that it is a measurement of time, but instead it is a measurement of distance. A lightyear is defined as how far light travels in a year. If someone was able to travel at the speed […] Continue reading