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Faster-than-light - Wikipedia


Faster-than-light (also superluminal or FTL) communication and travel are the conjectural ... In neither case does the light travel from the source to the object faster than c, ... Imagine two fast-moving particles approaching each other from opposite ..... However, the vacuum we know is not the only possible vacuum which can ...


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What is the fastest moving object we know of in the universe, apart ...


The Oh-My-God particle was traveling at 99.99999999999999999999951% of the speed of light when it struck the University of Utah's Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray ...


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gravity - What's the fastest moving object in the universe ...


Nov 7, 2013 ... As for which is the fastest, I don't know, we would have to find a pair of ... than light (they are not the fastest objects in the universe though), and ...


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10 Fastest Things in the Universe | HowStuffWorks


Learn about the 10 fastest things in the universe at HowStuffWorks.com. ... Since you already know that light is the fastest thing around, we'll look at what other ...


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The Cosmic Distance Scale


Jul 26, 2016 ... Current observations suggest that the Universe is about 13.7 billion years old. We know that light takes time to travel, so that if we observe an object ... we look, the faster objects are moving away from us, which shifts their light ...


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Expansion of the universe - Wikipedia


The expansion of the universe is the increase of the distance between two distant parts of the ... While special relativity prohibits objects from moving faster than light with respect ... This kind of expansion is known as "metric expansion". .... metric is what we observe as the so-called Hubble expansion, the moving apart of all ...


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Is light really the fastest thing in the universe? - Quora


But there are two things that I know of that are faster then light. The first ... Now because the universe is constantly expanding at an accelerating rate, two... ... at an accelerating rate, two given objects will constantly move away from each others.


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When measuring the speed at which far-flung galaxies move, do ...


A good analogy for the expanding universe comes from Martin Gardner, a popular ... called the "Hubble constant" to measure how fast this expansion is taking place. ... But what if you're measuring a galaxy that's a few billion light- years away? ... And instead of distance, astronomers look at objects of known power inside the ...


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StarChild: The Universe


This explosion is known as the Big Bang. ... When an object moves away from Earth, the light that it is giving off is seen in longer wavelengths. ... The amount of shift in an object's spectrum is determined by how fast the object is moving.


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Redshift and Hubble's Law


For very far objects (beyond about 1 billion light-years) none of the above methods work. ... In fact, he found that the universe was expanding - with all of the galaxies moving away from ... Hence, the farther a galaxy, the faster it is receding from Earth. ... So to determine an object's distance, we only need to know its velocity.


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How fast is the earth moving? - Scientific American


As schoolchildren, we learn that the earth is moving about our sun in a very ... 150 million light-years (one light year is about six trillion miles) away from us. ... frame of reference relative to which we can define the motions of all things? ... was our early universe, is known as the cosmic microwave background radiation (CBR).


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The Doppler Shift


Sounds from objects moving towards you sound higher pitched than when ... If you know what the train horn sounds like standing still, you can figure out if a train in ... and how fast just by measuring the frequency (pitch) of the sound you hear! ... in pitch as the object is moving towards or away from you, light appears higher ...


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