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The speed of light is... slooooooow
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Posted on 11/02/2015 11:04:54 PM PST by LibWhacker

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To: FredZarguna

Relative to a “vehicle” of his time (or even a modern day space vehicle) it was (is) extraordinarily rapid.

When compared to the universe, not so much.


41 posted on 11/03/2015 5:10:21 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: aquila48

God is light. It is one of the many things he is along with love, truth and forgiveness. Grace and mercy are.also his. You know this with your head but God wants your heart. That is what makes me a Christ follower.


42 posted on 11/03/2015 5:10:53 AM PST by Cottonpatch
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Far out man.... literally

Been seeing Venus , Jupiter and Mars in the morning sky.

Venus is not as close to the sun as we are shown in educational books or videos.


43 posted on 11/03/2015 5:37:44 AM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Yes, per second, not hour.


44 posted on 11/03/2015 5:42:05 AM PST by exnavy (good gun control: two hands, one shot, one kill.)
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To: exnavy; Lonesome in Massachussets
-- 186,000 mph --

186,000 miles per second. About 670 million MPH.

45 posted on 11/03/2015 5:44:44 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: exnavy

186,000 miles per second..


46 posted on 11/03/2015 5:48:48 AM PST by American Constitutionalist
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47 posted on 11/03/2015 6:29:06 AM PST by xp38
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To: Crazieman

In a similar way, many do not understand how big our planet is - only a misunderstanding of the scale of Earth would lead somebody to believe we could actually affect the climate.


48 posted on 11/03/2015 7:09:58 AM PST by lacrew
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To: LibWhacker

Great post. I’ve said the same here on FR and received angry responses.

The speed of light also limits clock rate and the size of computers.


49 posted on 11/03/2015 7:12:32 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: A Navy Vet

Not being a physicist nor playing one on TV, I have a problem with the whole Relativity time shift.

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Relativity was based on experimental results, and has been confirmed by experiment ever since its publication numerous times to ever greater precision. The same can be said for quantum mechanics, which is even stranger than relativity. It’s so strange that even its founders like Einstein and Schrodinger had difficulty accepting it.


50 posted on 11/03/2015 7:22:11 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: aquila48

But if you were traveling on a beam of light, distances would be shrunk to zero, and time would stand still.

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It all depends on the observer. Another difficult concept is that there is no such thing as simultaneous events.


51 posted on 11/03/2015 7:23:53 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

It all depends on the observer. Another difficult concept is that there is no such thing as simultaneous events.


Heisenberg...the scientist. Not the meth cooker.


52 posted on 11/03/2015 7:24:45 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: lacrew

In a similar way, many do not understand how big our planet is - only a misunderstanding of the scale of Earth would lead somebody to believe we could actually affect the climate.

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I disagree.

We could certainly affect the climate or more accurately, the weather, if we put in the effort with the right technique.


53 posted on 11/03/2015 7:30:57 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: traderrob6
This is a mistaken belief; there is nothing "relative" about it. Nor is it slow "compared to the universe."

The limitation on the speed of anything is a constraint imposed by the geometry of the universe, in which the space and time dimensions are not independent of each other, but are constrained to obey ds2 = ημνdxμdxν.

With this restriction in mind, Galileo was entirely [although fortuitously] correct: light moves not only "extraordinarily rapidly," but it moves at the fastest speed that anything material can.

54 posted on 11/03/2015 7:53:52 AM PST by FredZarguna (Eat pork: Annoy the UN.)
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To: Nailbiter

ping


55 posted on 11/03/2015 8:26:00 AM PST by IncPen (Not one single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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56 posted on 11/03/2015 9:16:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Moonman62

But for the “thing” traveling at the speed of light (which is what I’m talking about) what I said is true (according to Relativity) . Do you agree?


57 posted on 11/03/2015 9:45:18 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Crazieman

It is also slowing down as the energy builds up in the zero point field.


58 posted on 11/03/2015 10:16:35 AM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Crazieman

Bookmark.


59 posted on 11/03/2015 10:44:15 AM PST by SunTzuWu
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To: FredZarguna

I was referring to how painfully “slow” it is or at least is perceived when taken in context with the size of the universe.

I am fully aware that it is theoretically the fastest any material “can” physically travel. Some would dispute this.


60 posted on 11/03/2015 10:57:05 AM PST by traderrob6
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