Sentences with phrase «traveling at light speed»

Boss after boss, I felt more like the spaceman traveling at light speed at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey than a player in his own living room.

The theory about relativity and time is that when traveling at light speed, time moves «slower» for you than it does for others.

Even traveling at light speed, that data would take more than four years to arrive, a wait that no amount of technology can lessen.

That's because, according to special relativity, massless particles would have to travel at light speed, in which case time for them would stand still and any change would be impossible.

My wit travels at light speed.

Moody though incoherent, boldly cynical if hampered by extraordinarily poor editing (it appears as though characters are able to travel at light speed from location to location — the budget probably couldn't support transitional coverage), The Calling is so earnestly bad that I really got a kick out of it.

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Pictures, videos, emails, phone calls and more, traveling through glass fibers as thin as human hair, all at the speed of light.

Simply put, Time Dilation means that someone travelling at near light speeds will experience time at a slower pace than a stationary observer.

I hope that some day we can transcend our physical bodies, travel at the speed of light, and do way more than we can today.

For what you said to make sense, god would have to be traveling away from us at the speed of light.

If time travel can only be achieved with travel faster than the speed of light, then during this faster - than - the - speed - of - light expansion the growing Universe was experiencing, couldn't the entire universe at that time have been going backwards, or possibly forwards, in time itself?

The waves travel through this space at roughly the speed of light.

If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!

If a person travelled towards the blackhole at beyond the speed of light he may only travel for a few days / weeks (whatever) but those days / weeks equate to thousands of years here on earth.

I can believe that one day man will develop a way to travel at the speed of light but science can't prove that.

In short, as Einstein famously showed, light travels at a set speed.

In short, as Einstein showed, light travels at a set speed.

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The average MTA bus travels at an average speed of 7.4 miles per hour, the report said, and spends about 22 percent of its time at red lights and 22 percent at bus stops.

Light must travel in a straight line and at a constant speed, or so the laws of nature suggest.

The signals generated by the magnitude - 9.1 quake that struck Japan were barely one - billionth g, the amount of Earth's gravitational field at sea level, but they traveled at the speed of light and were detected at seismometers hundreds of kilometers away, the researchers report today in Science.

The latest LIGO signal proves that gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, ruling out a swath of cosmological theories in the process.

Cosmology is similar: Because light travels at a finite speed, looking at distant light sources is literally looking back in time.

Ripples in spacetime travel at the speed of light.

But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling at high speed on a beam of light.

Unlike more familiar kinds of waves, these gravitational ripples don't travel «through» space; they are vibrations of spacetime itself, propagating outward in all directions at the speed of light.

ANOTHER LOOKING GLASS In science fiction movies like Stargate and Contact, wormholes connect distant points in the universe, allowing people to travel from one spot to another in far less time than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocity.

These findings are forcing physicists to abandon their most cherished ideas about neutrinos: that they have no mass and can travel through space at the speed of light.

Einstein derisively called this «spooky action at a distance,» and he took it to «prove» that quantum theory was wrong, since nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

Representatives from the OPERA collaboration spoke in a seminar at CERN today, supporting their astonishing claim that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light.

That paper spelled out how an observer's motion through space affects his motion through time (to someone traveling at nearly the speed of light, time slows to a crawl), but it said nothing about treating time as a fourth dimension in a continuum of space - time.

The researchers» calculations show that if gravitational waves are found to travel at the speed of light, this would rule out alternative gravity theories, with no dark energy, in support of Einstein's Cosmological Constant.

«The gradual brightening of the radio signal indicates we are seeing a wide - angle outflow of material, traveling at speeds comparable to the speed of light, from the neutron star merger,» said Kunal Mooley, now a National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by Caltech.

The signal travels between the wires because the magnetic field formed by the first wire — the transmitter — creates an electric field in space, which in turn creates a magnetic field, and so on, moving outward at the speed of light.

When objects travel at nearly the speed of light, time slows down for them.

Since LRO's launch in 2009, the CRaTER instrument has been measuring energetic charged particles — particles that can travel at nearly the speed of light and may cause detrimental health effects — from galactic cosmic rays and solar particle events.

The neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds sooner than they would have if they had been travelling at the speed of light, the team says.

So to travel to the future, just start moving at speeds close to the speed of light, Bah says.

But scientists aren't worried about it making contact: It's some 8 billion light - years away from Earth and traveling at less than 1 % the speed of light.

As the temperature changes down the length of the borehole, the light travels at slightly different speeds, and the color of the backscattered light changes slightly as well.

The simulations revealed that energy likely was deposited by electrons traveling at about 20 percent of the speed of light.

A wind of particles seems to be spreading out from the neutron star's equator like wispy smoke rings, but they are traveling at half the speed of light.

The experiments, in which protons traveling at nearly the speed of light collide head - on, can not directly detect the Higgs, because the boson would decay within a fraction of a nanosecond into other particles.

More wildly, future iterations of Sprites could become Breakthrough's hoped - for «StarChips» — spacecraft integrated with gossamer - thin, meter - wide «lightsails» that would travel at 20 percent the speed of light to Alpha Centauri or other nearby stars, propelled by high - powered pulses of photons from a gargantuan ground - based laser array.

As photons travel at different speeds through each fluid, light is refracted, or bent, at the boundaries between the patches and the mixture ends up opaque.

Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO's twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.

Imagine that a train passenger — to honor the Italian scientist, let's call her «Gail» — turns on a flashlight and measures the speed at which the light travels.

Einstein was particularly interested in the part of Maxwell's theory that predicted that a beam of light travels at 671 million mph, commonly known as the speed of light.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emerge from the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent the speed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - years into intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.

But Maxwell's theory requires that the light travel at exactly 671 million mph, no more and no less, regardless of the train's speed.