Sentences with phrase «velocity of light»

That is, for Hartshorne communication between God and the world is not subject to the same limitation as is communication between man and the world, namely, the limitation imposed by the finite velocity of light.

BSIT also enables the speeding up and slowing down of the group velocity of light.

At one point Fizeau's measurement of the velocity of light in water seemed a conclusive refutation of the corpuscular theory of light; but the latter returned, in a new form, in Einstein's theory of photons.

Of course the Newtonian equations for the motion of an object can all be obtained from Einstein's equations as limiting cases for velocities which are small compared to the velocity of light.

Further, such an assumption, Whitehead urges, dispenses with the necesslty to believe that the constancy of the velocity of light is pertinent to spatio - temporal structure, for that structure is predetermined only by the existence in nature of interrelated spacetime frames (CN 193).6

And in any case, when a physicist discusses the velocity of light, or the red - shift which shows that the universe is expanding, he is talking about something that would be there in nature if there were no animals with sensations of color left.

Perhaps there are means of communication vastly more rapid than the velocity of light.

Any observable phenomena due to this cause depend on the square of the ratio of any velocity entering into the observation to the velocity of light.

«Because then, fundamental particles would not have mass,» notes Heuer, «and then it's difficult to get them together because they would all fly around at the velocity of light.»

Karen Holland, Richard Jameson, and their collaborators at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, noticed something amiss when they calculated the velocities of the lightest stars in the cluster.

But by then Einstein had changed most people's minds and persuaded them to accept the simple, beautiful truth: The velocity of light, c, really is different from any other velocity.

For very small velocities (small compared to the velocity of light), the same holds in relativity, but for large velocities significant modifications occur.

Jets are often seen traveling away from black holes and along their spin axis — some at «up to 99.98 percent of the velocity of light.