Sentences with phrase «finite speed of light»
(The finite speed of light means that larger physical distances translate to greater distances in time, or look - back times.)
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Due to the finite speed of light, MOSFIRE is providing a view of these galaxies as they existed billions of years ago, when the light first started traveling to Earth.
The finite speed of light means that the further away a cosmic object is, the longer its light takes to reach us.
Not exact matches
All the reflections seemed to move in unison — but that, I knew, was a mere limitation of human perception; at a young age I had learned of light's finite speed.
A century ago this year, Albert Einstein showed that the speed of light is not just finite but also constant and absolute.
Because the speed of light is finite, observing distant objects allows us to look back in time.
The edge of the Universe, in astronomical terms, is actually the beginning of the Universe because the further away we look, since the speed of light is finite, the more back in time we look; and so looking at the edge of the Universe is a strange expression to be used in astronomy but I take it to mean going backward as much as possible - as far away from us as we can.