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[Guest]

what is the speed of light?

 

[pamela]

186,291 miles per second.

 

[argon12]

Actually it is 186,292.+ miles per second or 2.9979E8 meters per second IN FREE SPACE. Remember my thought and information about the speed of light in other medium. The velocity is not the same.

 

[Joe]

Will it ever be possible to pass the speed of light?

 

[argon12]

Yes...it already has in a sense. See my information in the 'Combined thoughts...." discussion thread on the speed of light.

Remember some of the following statements and who said them. Someday we will fold, bend and staple the space-time continum.

"Heavier than air flying machines are impossible," "Radio has no future," "X-rays are a hoax."

- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
President of London’s Royal Society (1895-1904).
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."
- Robert Millikan,
Nobel Prize in Physics (1923).
"The secrets of flight will not be mastered within our lifetime.. not within a thousand years."
- Wilbur Wright (1901).

 

[Alpha Romeo]

I had read somewhere about scientists shooting a molecule or particle or someother, and it went a certain speed. They fired that same molecule through a more solid object and it went faster like it was being propelled by the object itself. Has anyone heard of this.