Sample Sentences forspeed of light (editor-reviewed)
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Light does not travel at the speed of light unless it is in a vacuum. It travels more slowly through air, water, or fiber optic cables.speed of light = about 186,000 miles per second
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The speed of light in a vacuum is often denoted by the letter c.
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Some theorize particles called tachyons can travel faster than the speed of light, but others disagree.
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Even traveling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here. (source)speed of light = about 186,000 miles per second (or 300,000,000 meters per second) in a vacuum
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The signal travels at the speed of light, surely.† (source)
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Quicker than the speed of light, I jumped away from him and ran.† (source)
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What are your thoughts on the feasibility of flying at the speed of light?† (source)
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A lightning that cannot strike twice, our lesson learned in the hateful speed of light.† (source)
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In binary form, a virus can bounce around the universe at the speed of light.† (source)
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At the speed of light the hub's signal fires.† (source)
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All those magnificent ships can reach one-tenth the speed of light.† (source)
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So if you were traveling at the speed of light (the fastest speed attainable by any spacecraft inside the OASIS), you could get from one side of a sector to the other in exactly ten hours.† (source)
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It means if we were traveling at the speed of light, it would take us forty-five minutes to get from Earth to Jupiter, so the Jupiter we're seeing right now is actually Jupiter forty-five minutes ago.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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