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speed of light
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  • I'm falling faster than the speed of light into the black hole that opened with the Arrival and then devoured everything in its path.†   (source)
  • In the kitchen she told me that only the speed of light would save me, so I had better wash the dishes in record time.†   (source)
  • I know I'm not the first to realize it and far from the most famous, and my realization had nothing to do with energy or mass or the speed of light or anything else Einstein might have postulated.†   (source)
  • Quicker than the speed of light, I jumped away from him and ran.†   (source)
  • A lightning that cannot strike twice, our lesson learned in the hateful speed of light.†   (source)
  • The thought that she was flying away from him faster than the speed of light, wrapped in the artificial quantum cocoon of the Hawking effect, seemed unnatural and ominous to him.†   (source)
  • Now Kip hates Tony already because he has a name like Vauxhall and not like Smith, which Kip thinks is prettylame as a name to follow Kip, and because the 'Cuda is bright green and goes approximately the speed of light, and also because Tony has never had to work a day in his life.†   (source)
  • In binary form, a virus can bounce around the universe at the speed of light.†   (source)
  • Does he want the truth of someone traveling at almost the speed of light in another galaxy?†   (source)
  • Your brain moves beyond the speed of light as you wander through a familiar store.†   (source)
  • I'm running the line back to Seth at the speed of light, Leah promised.†   (source)
  • You could travel at many times the speed of light toward the center, and never reach it.†   (source)
  • The signal travels at the speed of light, surely.†   (source)
  • So Max could fly at the speed of light, eh?†   (source)
  • I have found that when particles are accelerated to a speed approaching the speed of light, they-†   (source)
  • Then he is falling, faster than the speed of light.†   (source)
  • That's why it doesn't interfere with itself, why the speed of light is uniform no matter what the relative speed of its starting point, why two beams fired head-on do not cancel one another out.†   (source)
  • But—and here's the weirdly special sequel, Relativity II—if you went really, really, really fast, so that you were almost moving at the speed of light, and your friend just stayed in his carriage, time would actually slow down all around you!†   (source)
  • Speed of light alone would trip you.†   (source)
  • Not a direct attack with six tons of metal screaming down at a fraction of the speed of light.†   (source)
  • The Overlords ships reach more than ninety-nine per cent of the speed of light, so the trip must last forty years of our dine.†   (source)
  • Each ticking moment seemed to bear Sophie away from me with the speed of light.†   (source)
  • Calvin talked about traveling at the speed of light.   (source)
  • They can only accelerate something as small as a proton to near the speed of light.†   (source)
  • What are your thoughts on the feasibility of flying at the speed of light?†   (source)
  • Before that point, their maximum speed had hovered around one-thousandth the speed of light.†   (source)
  • YE: The current Trisolaran civilization is capable of space travel at one-tenth the speed of light.†   (source)
  • All those magnificent ships can reach one-tenth the speed of light.†   (source)
  • The fleet is only capable of cruising at one-hundredth the speed of light.†   (source)
  • At the speed of light the hub's signal fires.†   (source)
  • But it was still moving at the speed of light and cut deep into the ship as it swept across.†   (source)
  • Now as you may have beard, strange things happen as one approaches the speed of light.†   (source)
  • And because nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, this means that we can only know about a fraction of the things that go on in the universe, like this….†   (source)
  • The amphitheater is now filling up rapidly as thousands of hackers pour in from all over the place: running down the Street from The Black Sun, streaming out, of the big office towers where the major software corporations are headquartered, goggling into the Metaverse from all points in Reality as word of the extravaganza spreads down the fiberoptic grapevine at the speed of light.†   (source)
  • And if you go off in a spaceship and you travel near the speed of light, you may come back and find that all your family is dead and you are still young and it will be the future but your clock will say that you have only been away for a few days or months.†   (source)
  • And this is a map of everything and everywhere, and the future is on the right and the past is on the left and the gradient of the line c is the speed of light, but we can't know about the things which happen in the shaded areas even though some of them have already happened, but when we get to fit will be possible to find out about things which happen in the lighter areas p and q. And this means that time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has ever solved the puzzle of…†   (source)
  • At a micro scale, humans can already use high-energy particle accelerators to speed up subatomic particles to near the speed of light.†   (source)
  • Outside this context, even backward human beings are capable of accelerating certain objects to close to the speed of light.†   (source)
  • They can draw energy from the vacuum and become high-energy particles in a moment, and navigate through space at nearly the speed of light.†   (source)
  • Ye didn't know that at that moment, the first cry that could be heard in space from civilization on Earth was already spreading out from the sun to the universe at the speed of light.†   (source)
  • If the Trisolaran Fleet that had been launched is capable of flight at one-tenth the speed of light, it should take only forty years to reach the solar system.†   (source)
  • Just respond to the message, and if the other party replies quickly to t e response, the Trisolarans could determine the distance based on the r und-trip time and the speed of light.†   (source)
  • Six years ago, in the distant Trisolaran stellar system, Trisolaris accelerated two hydrogen nuclei to near the speed of light and shot them toward the solar system.†   (source)
  • One-tenth the speed of light is only their maximum speed, but they cannot cruise at this speed for long before decelerating as they approach the Earth.†   (source)
  • The fifth time, the black ball flew away at nearly the speed of light, breaking the edge of the pool table, shooting through the wall, and leaving the Earth and the Solar System, just like Asimov once described.†   (source)
  • A fiery horse with the speed of light.†   (source)
  • Travels at the speed of light.†   (source)
  • Lasers move at the speed of light.†   (source)
  • Energy, mass, speed of light.†   (source)
  • But even as desire tends to specialize, going silky and intimate, the force of converging markets produces an instantaneous capital that shoots across horizons at the speed of light, making for a certain furtive sameness, a planing away of particulars that affects everything from architecture to leisure time to the way people eat and sleep and dream.†   (source)
  • A week later we made rendezvous, coming out of drive and coasting short of the speed of light while the fleet exchanged signals.†   (source)
  • The atom was an energy-laden cosmic system, in which planets rotated frantically around a sunlike center, while comets raced through its ether at the speed of light, held in their eccentric orbits by the gravity of the core.†   (source)
  • Then there was a wild yelp of agony and the poodle went sailing up the aisle; the yelps continued, and so did the dog; he crossed the house in front of the altar; he flew down the other aisle; he crossed before the doors; he clamored up the home-stretch; his anguish grew with his progress, till presently he was but a woolly comet moving in its orbit with the gleam and the speed of light.†   (source)
  • At first, he was dead of all the diseases that ever were known, and of several bran-new maladies invented with the speed of Light to meet the demand of the occasion.†   (source)
  • Hills swelling above each other; and undulations shapely and uncouth, smooth and rugged, graceful and grotesque, thrown negligently side by side, bounded the view in each direction; while frequently, with unexpected noise, there uprose from the ground a flight of crows, who, cawing and wheeling round the nearest hills, as if uncertain of their course, suddenly poised themselves upon the wing and skimmed down the long vista of some opening valley, with the speed of light itself.†   (source)
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