| Basically, space-time had to be rescaled such that the speed of light in vacuum remained constant. |
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| He showed that these waves travelled at the speed of light and, like light, could be reflected and refracted. |
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| Albert Einstein theorized that the speed of gravity was around the speed of light, but no one proved it until now. |
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| If a particle moves faster than the speed of light, it must create a shockwave, and radiate energy. |
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| At half the speed of light, travel time to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system, would take nine years. |
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| The principle of the cyclotron fails as particles accelerate close to the speed of light. |
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| The gravitational field of a black hole is so strong that the escape velocity needed is greater than the speed of light. |
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| Given the assumed constancy of the speed of light, the calculations required to show that result are quite simple. |
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| The speed of gravity has been measured for the first time, revealing that it does indeed travel at the speed of light. |
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| The transmissions were sent at the speed of light through the air to the distant mission control. |
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| The synchrotron can accelerate electrons from a mere walking pace up to almost the speed of light. |
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| Why is it easier to accelerate an electron to a speed that is close to the speed of light, compared to accelerating a proton to the same speed? |
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| The emitted beta particle travels through air at close to the speed of light. |
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| That is, an infinite amount of energy would have to be expended, via the accelerating force, to reach the speed of light. |
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| Light, when introduced in the form of navigation beacons on ships, crawled, the speed of light being several thousand times slower. |
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| What little we know about this new subject consists of a few broad limitations such as the finiteness of the speed of light. |
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| And so the isotropy of the radiation from the Big Bang would no longer be inconsistent with the finiteness of the speed of light. |
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| What would happen if the escape velocity of a planet were greater than the speed of light? |
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| Thus, with a swiftness approaching the speed of light itself, the luminiferous ether entered the graveyard of discredited scientific ideas. |
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| The intense X rays from a solar flare travel to Earth at the speed of light, giving space weather watchers little time to react. |
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| We really do not know what would happen to time when an object passes the speed of light. |
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| Notice the light wave is still only propagating at c, the phase velocity of the wave, however, may travel less, or even greater than at the speed of light. |
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| For electromagnetism, the coupling constant is called the fine structure constant a and is formed by the electron charge, Planck's constant and the speed of light. |
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| Einstein resolved this paradox by recognizing that Galilean invariance is just an approximation, valid for speeds much smaller than the speed of light. |
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| The lightning produces an electromagnetic signal which travels around the world at the speed of light with an intensity in proportion to the thunderstorm activity. |
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| In a rotating black hole, the ergosphere is associated with the stationary limit, the location at which space-time is flowing at the speed of light. |
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| Movement takes over the space-time continuum, the speed of light being promoted to the rank of universal constant by Albert Einstein. |
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| He cut the fine sentiments and noble aspirations into a series of cabalistic fulgurations that flared up and died out with the speed of light. |
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| In a particle accelerator, protons are accelerated to almost the speed of light and smashed into each other. |
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| The vertical time axis is the product of time and the speed of light so that world lines of light rays leaving the origin make a forty-five degree angle with each space axis. |
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| Lenses work by REFRACTION, not reflection, and the angle of refraction is based on the difference between the speed of light in the lens compared to the surrounding medium. |
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| Its power comes not only from disseminating images far and wide at the speed of light, but from its inhuman ability of ceaseless observation. |
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| Roland Swift's creation transfers a rubber band onto vegetables like broccoli at the speed of light. |
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| When they are whizzing at nearly the speed of light, the two beams can be made to cross paths. |
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| They go faster and faster, gaining energy with each lap, until they are whizzing at nearly the speed of light. |
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| Information streams through it at the speed of light, newfangled jargon swirls around it and the whole mess is governed haphazardly, if at all. |
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| His own guitar-playing is a veritable sight to behold, fingers flying faster than the speed of light as he holds the crowd entranced. |
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| If the particle moves with the speed of light, then the tangent vector lies on the light cone at each event on the world line. |
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| One procedure is to use these photonic crystals to controllably slow down the speed of light. |
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| Through the process of self-induction the changing fields generate more electromagnetic wavelets that propagate outwards at the speed of light. |
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| We have said much about the relativity of simultaneity but little about the invariance of the speed of light. |
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| Fibre optic cable contains a thin glass core that is able to transmit digital information as pulses of light, at almost the speed of light. |
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| Once it was ready, Warren decided to use his new interferometer to find out if the speed of light changed when it travelled in different gases. |
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| You start with the square of an electron's charge, divide it by the speed of light and Planck's constant, then multiply the whole lot by two pi. |
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| A and A' are stationary with respect to the aether and hence, the speed of a radar signal between them is truly the speed of light. |
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| Scientists use an instrument known as a particle accelerator to accelerate particles to just below the speed of light and then smash them into other particles. |
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| Physical limitations caused by the finite speed of light appear from time to time, but in most cases are perceived as mere annoyances. |
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| I know that most of you are thrilling to the sight of this station that seems to be morphing into place at the speed of light. |
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| Radar energy travels through the atmosphere at the speed of light in a narrow beam. |
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| Bryan G. Wallace found that the speed of light might not be exactly constant. |
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| If I might, at the speed of light is the short answer, at the speed that the Internet allows. |
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| Radio waves in the microwave band beamed outward at the speed of light are reflected back from objects which they strike. |
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| The CGPM recommended a value for the speed of light in vacuum as a result of measurements of the wavelength and the frequency of laser radiation. |
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| However creation science has provided a conceptual framework to support the idea that the speed of light may have varied in the past. |
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| Indeed, an object having any proper mass would become infinitely heavy as the speed of that object approached the speed of light. |
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| The symbols c, t and s mean speed of light in a vacuum, time and second, respectively. |
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| Since the speed of light is constant, the distance can be calculated on the basis of the time of flight. |
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| Today, our offices are linked by complex electronic networks delivering information at the speed of light. |
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| The theory of relativity hinges on the constancy of the speed of light. |
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| In essence, the trading represented an arbitrage of the speed of light itself. |
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| It's more of the same only faster and faster because the future's now coming at the speed of light and change is accelerating at an exponential rate. |
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| It does possess conserved quantities, its world line does constitute a causal process, and it is not capable of moving faster than the speed of light. |
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| Maxwell's theoretical unification of electricity and magnetism was engineered into the modern human power to communicate across space at the speed of light. |
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| Only one thing is unchangeable, and that is the speed of light, which travels at 300 million metres a second, regardless of how fast anyone observing it is moving. |
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| If it has been expanding spherically at the speed of light since the big bang, then I can't see how it can be bigger than 20 billion to 30 billion light years across. |
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| The existence of the tachyon, though not experimentally established, appears consistent with the theory of relativity, which was originally thought to apply only to particles traveling at or less than the speed of light. |
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| How does grated cheese help us measure the speed of light? |
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| It is necessary to implant, at the speed of light, certain instruments that will make it possible to control the action of speculative capital with steely determination, and oblige it to reinvest primordially in production. |
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| As a perpetrator of this second kind of error, Ms Irigaray, futilely complaining about the speed of light, looks inevitably a bit of a straw woman. |
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| During the war he invented the cavity resonance wavemeter to find the first accurate value of the speed of light. |
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| A homogenous energy field must exist because the speed of light does not depend on the light source speed, neither does it depend on the energy level of the radiation. |
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| The time taken for this round-trip of request and acknowledgment determines the network's latency. The latency cannot be less than the distance the electromagnetic signal has to travel divided by the speed of light. |
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| As it spreads across the world at the speed of light without proving to be particularly lethal, the new public enemy number one is not what we expected. |
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| Therefore, both the current and charge densities are solutions of a wave equation traveling with a speed of light. |
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| This definition was eventually superseded in 1983 by the present one, which is derived by assigning a defined value to the speed of light in free space. |
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| For although they travel at the speed of light, critical messages controlling the on-board systems of these interplanetary probes can take over 90 minutes to travel from Earth to the spacecraft and back. |
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| The propulsive medium is composed of electrically charged particles, which are compressed and accelerated to the speed of light before they leave the spaceship's propulsion system. |
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| Soon we will go faster than the speed of light! |
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| This outflow creates two jets of opposite directions, often larger than the whole host galaxy, and are compounded by particles traveling near the speed of light. |
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| When the ratio of velocity to the speed of light is low, then the mass term is constant. |
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| Classical mechanics provides extremely accurate results when studying large objects and speeds not approaching the speed of light. |
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| The limiting case applies when the velocity u is very small compared to c, the speed of light. |
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| In the case of high velocity objects approaching the speed of light, classical mechanics is enhanced by special relativity. |
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| One important consequence of the equations is that they demonstrate how fluctuating electric and magnetic fields propagate at the speed of light. |
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| Each occurrence of a Maxwellian electromagnetic wave interaction could thus be represented by such an intersection of this Z-Y plane moving along the major X axis at the speed of light. |
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| One, our own, is the tardyon-universe, in which all particles go at subluminal velocities and may accelerate to nearly the speed of light. |
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| They have traversed the centuries at the speed of light, Uncontested fire charmers, they make the silent sky laugh and are full of an infinite number of dreams even more real than reality. |
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| The professor claimed that a time machine would be uninventable, since nobody can travel faster than the speed of light. |
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| The LHC smashes together subatomic particles called protons in a 27km underground circular tunnel outside Geneva at within a whisker of the speed of light. |
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| Any radiation is transmitted through the aether at the speed of light. |
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| A child of the speed of light, electricity in his bones and soul, he was one of the first of his generation to recognize the rewiring that had taken place. |
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| And a spacefaring civilisation, even one relying on craft travelling at far below the speed of light, would be able to colonise the entire galaxy in a few hundred million years. |
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| Then bacteria break loose at the speed of light, first causing a surface dryness to which the body reacts by overproducing sebum in an attempt to protect the skin. |
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| But diamonds are not as immutable as the speed of light, notes Dr Cohen. |
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| The speed of light, the date of the moon landing. |
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| Penrose and James Terrell independently realised that objects travelling near the speed of light will appear to undergo a peculiar skewing or rotation. |
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| By 1983 it was accepted that the speed of light in vacuum was constant and that this constant provided a more reproducible procedure for measuring length. |
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| Therefore, the metre was redefined in terms of the speed of light. |
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| It is quite mesmerising to watch size 11 steel-boots shuffling at the speed of light and the show opening focuses our attention on to the unique skills of tapdance. |
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| When it is near to the speed of light, the denominator approaches zero and the momentum reaches to infinity because effective inertial mass reaches for infinity. |
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| A photon is a unit of energy from standing half waves at the antinodes where the speed of light is relative to infinity and mass is part of infinity. |
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| Distance to the object is determined by recording the time between the transmitted and backscattered pulses and using the speed of light to calculate the distance travelled. |
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| So basically what Bubblehead is saying to her friend is that for a specific amount of mass, if you multiply it by the speed of light squared, you get its energy equivalence. |
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| Newtonian mechanics has been superseded by special relativity, but it is still useful as an approximation when the speeds involved are much slower than the speed of light. |
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