Posted on 11/02/2015 11:04:54 PM PST by LibWhacker
Relative to a “vehicle” of his time (or even a modern day space vehicle) it was (is) extraordinarily rapid.
When compared to the universe, not so much.
God is light. It is one of the many things he is along with love, truth and forgiveness. Grace and mercy are.also his. You know this with your head but God wants your heart. That is what makes me a Christ follower.
Far out man.... literally
Been seeing Venus , Jupiter and Mars in the morning sky.
Venus is not as close to the sun as we are shown in educational books or videos.
Yes, per second, not hour.
186,000 miles per second. About 670 million MPH.
186,000 miles per second..
In a similar way, many do not understand how big our planet is - only a misunderstanding of the scale of Earth would lead somebody to believe we could actually affect the climate.
Great post. I’ve said the same here on FR and received angry responses.
The speed of light also limits clock rate and the size of computers.
Not being a physicist nor playing one on TV, I have a problem with the whole Relativity time shift.
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Relativity was based on experimental results, and has been confirmed by experiment ever since its publication numerous times to ever greater precision. The same can be said for quantum mechanics, which is even stranger than relativity. It’s so strange that even its founders like Einstein and Schrodinger had difficulty accepting it.
But if you were traveling on a beam of light, distances would be shrunk to zero, and time would stand still.
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It all depends on the observer. Another difficult concept is that there is no such thing as simultaneous events.
It all depends on the observer. Another difficult concept is that there is no such thing as simultaneous events.
Heisenberg...the scientist. Not the meth cooker.
In a similar way, many do not understand how big our planet is - only a misunderstanding of the scale of Earth would lead somebody to believe we could actually affect the climate.
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I disagree.
We could certainly affect the climate or more accurately, the weather, if we put in the effort with the right technique.
The limitation on the speed of anything is a constraint imposed by the geometry of the universe, in which the space and time dimensions are not independent of each other, but are constrained to obey ds2 = ημνdxμdxν.
With this restriction in mind, Galileo was entirely [although fortuitously] correct: light moves not only "extraordinarily rapidly," but it moves at the fastest speed that anything material can.
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But for the “thing” traveling at the speed of light (which is what I’m talking about) what I said is true (according to Relativity) . Do you agree?
It is also slowing down as the energy builds up in the zero point field.
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I was referring to how painfully “slow” it is or at least is perceived when taken in context with the size of the universe.
I am fully aware that it is theoretically the fastest any material “can” physically travel. Some would dispute this.
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