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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@neiltyson Thank you for responding. Coincidentally, we're just at the point in episode 5 where you address this question.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@FattyHorseneck "why" implies someone intended it to be that way. Ask "how". -
@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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@neiltyson When light (or comets, etc...) travels through the universe is it displacing anything? - 1 more reply
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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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@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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@neiltyson@FattyHorseneck Simple answer is there is no matter, molecules or atoms only photons is the answer!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Maybe "Dark Matter" is faster, but we just can't see it?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@FattyHorseneck maybe it's because it's the light...estThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@FattyHorseneck entanglement suggest that some stuff can move faster...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@FattyHorseneck obviously Gravity is faster if light cannot escape black holes? -
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@neiltyson@FattyHorseneck The only sense in which gravity moves is slower than light. Can't explain in tweet length sorry!
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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)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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