Light at 38 M.P.H.

[tochigidream]

Did you guys know the speed of light is not constant and can be slowed down as much as 38mph? I found this article quite interesting.
Click here.

Since that article, they have further slowed the speed of light to 1 mph.
Click here.

Later,
Dave

 

[AutoEuphoria]

That's very cool

 

[NeoNSX]

Kinda blows the hypothesis that the universe is billions and billions of years old, and that light from distant stars takes millions of lightyears to reach us.

Nothing in this world is constant or perfect....... oh.... excluding the NSX.

 

[Zuerst]

That's nothing... I stopped light cold with my hand over the flashlight.

 

[Patdeisa]

Kinda blows the hypothesis that the universe is billions and billions of years old, and that light from distant stars takes millions of lightyears to reach us.

Not really. Light in a vacuum is constant, at approximately 2.99 x 10^8 m/s. In physics books, it describes that light slows down as it goes through various materials, that's why we get the broken straw in a glass of water...

 

[Ponyboy]

Did you know that time does not move at a constant either? It's actually part of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. For some, it's give credibility to the idea of time travel.

 

[jgtcnsx]

hmm interesting. so then i guess you can say a metro is as fast as the speed of light????

 

[zomby woof]

a new way to think about cold light beer :tongue: