All 4 Uses
speed of light
in
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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- Then they worked out that the universe was expanding, that the stars were all rushing away from one another after the Big Bang, and the further the stars were away from us the faster they were moving, some of them nearly as fast as the speed of light, which was why their light never reached us.†
Chpt 17 *
- 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.†
Chpt 193
- 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.... 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 what time is, exactly.†
Chpt 193
- 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.... 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 what time is, exactly.†
Chpt 193
Definitions:
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(1)
(speed of light) about 186,000 miles per second (or 300,000,000 meters per second) in a vacuum
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)