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speed of light
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speed of lightnoun
Synonyms:
Einstein constant, Einstein barrier, lightspeed, light speed, cspeed of lightnoun
The speed of electromagnetic radiation in a perfect vacuum: exactly 299,792,458 metres per second by definition.
Synonyms:
c, Einstein barrier, lightspeed, light speed, Einstein constant
Princeton's WordNet
speed of light, light speed, cnoun
the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second
Synonyms:
century, hundred, light speed, degree Celsius, nose candy, snow, coke, vitamin C, ascorbic acid, deoxycytidine monophosphate, one C, degree centigrade, c, ampere-second, coulomb, atomic number 6, blow, carbon, cytosine
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The constant activity on the surface of the Sun is punctuated by violent outbursts powered the Sun’s strong magnetic field. Solar flares emit bursts of X-rays that travel outward at the speed of light, coronal mass ejections( CMEs) are giant eruptions of hot gasses from the Sun’s outer atmosphere. As this blast wave of solar material( plasma) streams towards the planets at 1000 km/sec, it sweeps up the magnetic field in its path, creating a magnetized shockwave of the type that struck Earth’s magnetic field on October 8, 2013.
Landing is the most difficult part of the mission for multiple reasons, it takes radio signals traveling at the speed of light 2 to 3 seconds in total to send and receive messages – the spacecraft is traveling at 2 kilometers a second at that point.
You physically can not make a camera that picks out multiple reflections, that would mean that you take time slices so fast that [ the camera ] actually starts to operate at the speed of light, which is technically impossible. So what’s the trick ? We use the Fourier transform.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Translations for speed of light
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- سرعة الضوءArabic
- işığın sürətiAzerbaijani
- velocitat de la llumCatalan, Valencian
- rychlost světlaCzech
- lysets hastighedDanish
- LichtgeschwindigkeitGerman
- ταχύτητα του φωτόςGreek
- lumrapidecoEsperanto
- velocidad de la luzSpanish
- argiaren abiaduraBasque
- سرعت نورPersian
- valon nopeus, valonnopeusFinnish
- vitesse de la lumièreFrench
- velocidade da luzGalician
- מהירות האורHebrew
- fénysebességHungarian
- լույսի արագությունArmenian
- ljóshraðiIcelandic
- c, velocità della luceItalian
- 光速Japanese
- ಬೆಳಕಿನ ವೇಗKannada
- šviesos greitisLithuanian
- gaismas ātrumsLatvian
- prędkość światłaPolish
- velocidade da luzPortuguese
- viteza luminiiRomanian
- скорость светаRussian
- брзина светлости, brzina svetlosti, brzina svjetlosti, брзина свјетлостиSerbo-Croatian
- hitrost svetlobeSlovene
- shpejtësia e dritësAlbanian
- ljusets hastighetSwedish
- ஒளியின் வேகம்Tamil
- ışık hızıTurkish
- 光速Chinese
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