Speed Of Light Quotes
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“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Reaper Man
― Reaper Man
“Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.”
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“Today, we commit to this next great leap into the cosmos because we're human, and our nature is to fly.”
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“Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.”
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“We sometimes hear of things that can travel faster than light. Something called 'the speed of thought' is occasionally proffered. This is an exceptionally silly notion especially since the speed of impulses through the neutrons in our brain is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“The velocity of light is one of the most important of the fundamental constants of Nature. Its measurement by Foucault and Fizeau gave as the result a speed greater in air than in water, thus deciding in favor of the undulatory and against the corpuscular theory. Again, the comparison of the electrostatic and the electromagnetic units gives as an experimental result a value remarkably close to the velocity of light–a result which justified Maxwell in concluding that light is the propagation of an electromagnetic disturbance. Finally, the principle of relativity gives the velocity of light a still greater importance, since one of its fundamental postulates is the constancy of this velocity under all possible conditions.”
― Studies in Optics
― Studies in Optics
“The telescope, in enabling us to look far out into space, also allows us to look back in time. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second. When we look up into the daylight sky, we are not seeing the sun as it currently is but as it was about eight minutes ago, since it takes that long for the light radiating from this familiar star to travel 93 million miles to Earth. Similarly, when the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) receives light waves from the depths of the universe, those waves will have originated from points as far as 76 sextillion (76,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) miles away. It will have taken those waves some 13 billion years to arrive on earth, meaning they left their source about a million years after the big bang, and roughly nine to ten years before Earth even formed.”
― The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects
― The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects
“The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote. Nevertheless, it has been found that there are apparent exceptions to most of these laws, and this is particularly true when the observations are pushed to a limit, i.e., whenever the circumstances of experiment are such that extreme cases can be examined. Such examination almost surely leads, not to the overthrow of the law, but to the discovery of other facts and laws whose action produces the apparent exceptions. As instances of such discoveries, which are in most cases due to the increasing order of accuracy made possible by improvements in measuring instruments, may be mentioned: first, the departure of actual gases from the simple laws of the so-called perfect gas, one of the practical results being the liquefaction of air and all known gases; second, the discovery of the velocity of light by astronomical means, depending on the accuracy of telescopes and of astronomical clocks; third, the determination of distances of stars and the orbits of double stars, which depend on measurements of the order of accuracy of one-tenth of a second-an angle which may be represented as that which a pin's head subtends at a distance of a mile. But perhaps the most striking of such instances are the discovery of a new planet or observations of the small irregularities noticed by Leverrier in the motions of the planet Uranus, and the more recent brilliant discovery by Lord Rayleigh of a new element in the atmosphere through the minute but unexplained anomalies found in weighing a given volume of nitrogen. Many other instances might be cited, but these will suffice to justify the statement that 'our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals.”
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“[Psi waves travel far and wide
Faster than the speed of light
Limitless is their domain
Time does not their rate detain.]”
― Beyond the Hidden Sky
Faster than the speed of light
Limitless is their domain
Time does not their rate detain.]”
― Beyond the Hidden Sky
“He is, however,” Amos continued, “keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel’s reactor.”
Holden ran his fingers through his hair. “So not too generous, then.”
“Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c.”
― Cibola Burn
Holden ran his fingers through his hair. “So not too generous, then.”
“Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c.”
― Cibola Burn
“Physicists have yet to find anything capable of exceeding our known speed of light. The Tao cannot be named, and so I say there is one thing that out-paces all things: we call it “thought.” I can fill a room a with light before I’m anywhere near the switch.”
― Atomic Truths and Stellar Seeking: A Joybroker's Guide to the Stars Inside
― Atomic Truths and Stellar Seeking: A Joybroker's Guide to the Stars Inside
“As an expert of social media, I work by two browsers, to make sure, I am faster than the whole world, faster than the Speed of Light!”
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“If your intent is to prolonge the problem and not to wrap the solution, listen to me, you are neither of my speed nor of my speed break”
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