Light Speed
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Science
What happens when traveling at near-light speed
(ORDO NEWS) — It is known that the speed of light in vacuum is an absolute value, which is an inviolable cosmic speed limit. Recall that the speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 meters per second, or 1.08 billion kilometers per hour! According to Albert Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, all physical processes in a moving body proceed more slowly than in a similar body at rest. This…
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News Headlines
Water bears can fly to stars at near-light speed with a laser beam
(ORDO NEWS) — The possibility of traveling to other stars still remains only in the plane of science fiction, since interstellar distances are enormous – even light travels to the closest star to the Sun for several years. However, if we want to accelerate a spaceship with people on board to near-light speeds, then we are faced with a problem that seems to be completely insurmountable – a large mass.…