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Fairy Boy

41yrs • M •

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At What Speed Does Electricity Travel?

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""Veritatem quaere et insaniam inveni""

Ironwood

46yrs • M

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The speed of light I think, offhand, I could be wrong.

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"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

Wyote

40yrs • M •

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http://www.amasci.com/miscon/speed.html

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"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - Thomas Carlyle"

iSOUGHT|THOUGHT

40yrs • M •

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current is said to be 186,000 miles per second...

i have heard talk about the speed of light slowing down over time,

that moments after the big bang we had a much faster rate of light travel.

kinda makes sense- everything we know of that explodes does so at a slower rate the further it travels and the longer it lasts.

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"as i see it the only "variable" in the equation is THOUGHT. you are capable of changing this and this alone."

cturtle

72yrs • M •

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That is if their were / is a big bang?
My best friend of my youth told an alternate theory of an irresistable [energy] force meeting an unmoveable [mass] object . . . what I gathered from him was, the universe is a state of dynamic [equilibrium] existence.

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heard talk about the speed of light slowing down over time

Yes, electromagnetic radiation does [decrease] slow down over time [distance] but we call this shift in frquency, doppler effect?

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"Terrorist or tyrant, few may come to the Truth that both are poor choice."

iSOUGHT|THOUGHT

40yrs • M •

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yes, i don't know infact if there was an explosion... i assume it was big if there were?

and about the "red shift"- in tests passing light through various gasses, scientists observed similar shifts in frequency as did edwin hubble. (when viewing the cosmos)

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"as i see it the only "variable" in the equation is THOUGHT. you are capable of changing this and this alone."

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