Craig- slow down 'ol buddy.... we may have to get you a "brain truss" if you keep this up.
I seem to have read an article that supposed the the speed of light wasnt "exactly" 186,000 mph... just pinch slower.
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Einstein Theory of Relativity
by VM44 73 Replies latest jw friends
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I am relatively interested in relativity.
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onacruse
LOL @ hillbilly
A pre-frontal lobotomy has been suggested, but I don't have health insurance.
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Amazing1914
Hillbilly,
You stated that the speed of light is slightly slower then:
186,000 mph
It has been measured much faster ... around 186,400 miles per Second.
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Gerard
What is the speed of light?
The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second or 299,792,458 meters per second or the time it takes for the light to turn green before the guy behind you starts honking. When people refer to light, they are referring to light in a vacuum, though many vacuums are so full of dirt and dust and cat hair that not much light can travel through it.
The speed of light is proportional to the quality of your hangover after a night of drinking. The bigger the hangover, the faster and more intense the light seems to travel through your eyes and into your brain.
What is the speed of light? This is the speed at which postal workers move only at 4:59 p.m. when they are racing to lock the front doors in your face.
When someone asks What is the speed of light another theory is that this is the speed that all of the other checkout lines are moving, except yours when you are in a hurry.
Have you ever noticed how quickly your mate will react to you when you casually bring up one of your old romances during conversation. With these examples, you should now have an understanding to the question, what is the speed of light.
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bikerchic
LOL @ Gerard!
Now finally a post I can understand in this thread!
Kate
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Gerard
I did a brief search, It has been suggested that neutrinos may be the cause of gravity.
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onacruse
Gerard, perhaps you're thinking of neutrinos as possibly composing the "missing mass" of a closed universe? Gravitons are the postulated quanta that would be associated with the gravitational plane wave; not yet detected.
The "speed" of light has been measured to be as low as 100 mph (as I recall), in a Bose-Einstein condensate. As you observe, the 186,000 mps is in an absolute vacuum...which is the average cranial density of postal workers. LOL
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Leolaia
Have you heard of transmission latency? This is the delay in using high speed internet with Direcway or other wireless internet services that involve the transmission of signals to a satelite and back. Here the speed of light can definitely affect internet speed as it involves greater distance to the satelite than to a network node.....in 2009, we will have interplanetary internet with the Mars Telecom Orbiter (MTO) where we will definitely feel the impact of such time lags. I went to a talk today by the director of JPL who talked and gave a slide show and video of the current Mars landers and he talked about upcoming missions, including the MTO....
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hillbilly
My typo Jim-------- at any rate I can't make it into bed 'afore the room gets dark!
