All 15 Uses
speed of light
in
The Three-Body Problem
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- 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.†
p. 70.3
- All those magnificent ships can reach one-tenth the speed of light.†
p. 244.4
- 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.†
p. 268.8
- YE: The current Trisolaran civilization is capable of space travel at one-tenth the speed of light.†
p. 325.7
- Before that point, their maximum speed had hovered around one-thousandth the speed of light.†
p. 325.8
- 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.†
p. 325.9
- 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.†
p. 326.1
- Outside this context, even backward human beings are capable of accelerating certain objects to close to the speed of light.†
p. 326.5 *
- At a micro scale, humans can already use high-energy particle accelerators to speed up subatomic particles to near the speed of light.†
p. 326.6
- 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.†
p. 326.8
- They can only accelerate something as small as a proton to near the speed of light.†
p. 327.1
- 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.†
p. 351.7
- The fleet is only capable of cruising at one-hundredth the speed of light.†
p. 356.5
- 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.†
p. 378.1
- As you know, the sophons move at close to the speed of light.†
p. 380.1
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)