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Mar 6 2011 04:58pm
Quote (calum1234 @ Mar 6 2011 05:28pm)
light travels over 600 million miles per hour.

work it.


ive never heard someone measure it in miles per hour

that would be pretty impractical in most cases
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Mar 6 2011 05:06pm
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speed of light is constant.
gravity is instantaneous, and may not be constrained to just THIS universe
tachyons move faster than light
a human cannot OBSERVE anything moving faster than light
Einstein's "spooky interaction at a distance" is faster than light
as for thought...you have to better define what you mean by thought..measurements of stimulus and response have nerve impulses at approx. 88 Mph

...and everyone knows that the answer to Life the Universe and Everything is.....42  :/


gravity waves propagate at the speed of light and tachyons are hypothetical particles that have no been observed..
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Mar 6 2011 05:30pm
Quote (dothe @ Mar 6 2011 05:58pm)
ive never heard someone measure it in miles per hour

that would be pretty impractical in most cases

My favorite unit of measurement for the speed of light is in Furlongs per Fortnight. c ~ 1.8E12 furlongs per fortnight, btw

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gravity waves propagate at the speed of light and tachyons are hypothetical particles that have no been observed..

True.
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Mar 6 2011 06:49pm
Quote (dothe @ Mar 6 2011 05:58pm)
ive never heard someone measure it in miles per hour

that would be pretty impractical in most cases


thats because the laws of time bend to the law of gravity and there is more gravity on earth than in space. so 100 mph in space is different than on earth (slightly, almost undetectably).

This post was edited by juliusjuice on Mar 6 2011 06:50pm
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Quote (juliusjuice @ Mar 6 2011 07:49pm)
thats because the laws of time bend to the law of gravity and there is more gravity on earth than in space. so 100 mph in space is different than on earth (slightly, almost undetectably).


yes i know i mean the per hour part. more than likely you wouldnt be measuring the distance between 2 things that far apart in miles.
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