Ok, as I understand it we have no way to determine the speed which we are moving at in an absolute sense.<BR><BR>We can say "We are moving 20 miles per hour in the car relative to the road" or "The ...

The speed of light is a fundamental constant, approximately 299,792,458 meters per second. It's the same for all observers and hasn't changed measurably over billions of years. Nothing can travel ...

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In Newtonian physics, gravity was thought to be instantaneous. But in Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the speed of light, c, is the fastest possible speed for any interaction that ...

Science fiction authors and readers dream of travelling at the speed of light, but Einstein tells us we can’t. You might think that’s an arbitrary rule, but [FloatHeadPhysics] shows a different way to ...

So, you’re driving a car at half the speed of light. (Both hands on the wheel, please.) You turn on the headlights. How fast would you see this light traveling? What about a person standing by the ...

Imagine you’re in a car driving across the country watching the landscape. A tree in the distance gets closer to your car, passes right by you, then moves off again in the distance behind you. Of ...