Sentences with phrase «speed of light illustrated»

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This is why their speed is very, very close to the speed of light: v = 0.999999995 c - to illustrate this, take the distance incredibly long between the Sun and Earth: light takes 8 minutes to travel this distance of 150 million kilometres, and an electron travelling at the speed of the electrons in the ESRF storage ring, will arrive «only» a quarter of a microsecond «later».