Sentences with phrase «slowly than the speed of light»

Short electron pulses are, however, difficult to generate, because electrons carry a charge and move more slowly than the speed of light.

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The recent blockbuster Interstellar is based on premises that Einstein made technically plausible, if not (yet) technologically feasible: that by travelling close to the speed of light, or moving in an intense gravitational field such as that of a black hole, we age more slowly than those we leave behind on Earth (see diagram).

Only when we look at galaxies billions of light - years away, collecting the light they emitted billions of years ago, can we see that the most distant galaxies are moving more slowly than we would expect from observations of nearby galaxies, an indication that the universe has since sped up.