The speed of light is torturously slow, and these 3 simple animations by a scientist at NASA prove it
A series of new animations by a NASA scientist show just how zippy — and also how torturously slow — the speed of light can be. Light speed is the fastest that any material object can travel through space. That is, of course, barring the existence of theoretical shortcuts in the fabric of space …
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