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    1. ((Maximum SPOOPYflaps))‏ @FattyHorseneck 23 Jan 2016

      A 7-year-old's thought, watching Cosmos: "Why is light the thing that is fastest?" What an amazing question. I have no idea how to answer.

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      Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 23 Jan 2016
      Replying to @FattyHorseneck

      @FattyHorseneck None of the rest of us know either.

      5:23 PM - 23 Jan 2016
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        1. ((Maximum SPOOPYflaps))‏ @FattyHorseneck 23 Jan 2016
          Replying to @neiltyson

          @neiltyson Thank you for responding. Coincidentally, we're just at the point in episode 5 where you address this question.

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        2. John Malik‏ @kilamie 23 Jan 2016
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          @neiltyson @FattyHorseneck "why" implies someone intended it to be that way. Ask "how".

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        3. ((Maximum SPOOPYflaps))‏ @FattyHorseneck 23 Jan 2016
          Replying to @kilamie

          @kilamie @neiltyson I agree, wholeheartedly. Though in the parlance of a 2nd grader I would say the two words are effectively synonymous.

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        2. ʝιм §єα∂єνιℓ ωєανєr‏ @RogueSailor 23 Jan 2016
          Replying to @neiltyson

          @neiltyson When light (or comets, etc...) travels through the universe is it displacing anything?

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        2. Ron Nelson‏ @Dlanorx 25 Jan 2016
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          @neiltyson @FattyHorseneck Read a book by W Von Braun, when I was in school, who said that that is the point of total expenditure of energy

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        4. Ron Nelson‏ @Dlanorx 26 Jan 2016
          Replying to @anastasialie83

          @anastasialie83 He was explaining why rockets had to be so big. It's the % of the weight req to be turned into energy. At light it's 100%

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        1. nicky karunarathna‏ @NickyNickykaru 24 Jan 2016
          Replying to @neiltyson

          @neiltyson @FattyHorseneck Simple answer is there is no matter, molecules or atoms only photons is the answer!

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        1. John Malik‏ @kilamie 24 Jan 2016
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          @neiltyson @FattyHorseneck SOL is the speed of the movement of information in consciousness, the fundamental source of all that is known.

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        1. ʝιм §єα∂єνιℓ ωєανєr‏ @RogueSailor 23 Jan 2016
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          @neiltyson Maybe "Dark Matter" is faster, but we just can't see it?

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        1. Chaitan‏ @chaitan_ 3 Feb 2016
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          @neiltyson @FattyHorseneck maybe it's because it's the light...est

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        1. Juan C. Fabian‏ @jfabian 27 Jan 2016
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          @neiltyson @FattyHorseneck entanglement suggest that some stuff can move faster...

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        2. .‏ @LittyCommittee 27 Jan 2016
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          @neiltyson @FattyHorseneck obviously Gravity is faster if light cannot escape black holes?

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        3. Nicholas Yager‏ @some_are_shy 30 Jan 2016
          Replying to @LittyCommittee

          @ClaxKnows @neiltyson @FattyHorseneck The only sense in which gravity moves is slower than light. Can't explain in tweet length sorry!

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        1. TJ Nelson‏ @RamboSucksAtLoL 27 Jan 2016
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          @neiltyson @FattyHorseneck z

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        1. Nekomancer‏ @Nekomancer3 24 Jan 2016
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          @neiltyson @FattyHorseneck isn't it because it barely doesn't have any mass (sry I am bio student not physics student ヽ(;▽;)ノ)

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        1. syed‏ @sah_syed 23 Jan 2016
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          @neiltyson @FattyHorseneckpic.twitter.com/pFzBvixwFJ

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        1. Eduardo R Argaiz‏ @ArgaizR 23 Jan 2016
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          @neiltyson Is it not the fact that photons are the particle with less interaction with higgs field partly responsible for this attribute?

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