Monday, January 01, 2007

Living life at the speed of light.

No illustration can capture its aura. You've to actually ride on a beam of light to experience its speed. It's been a long time since Christensen Roemer observed the moons of Jupiter and noticed that the time taken by the moons to rotate about Jupiter is not constant which would have been the case if light's speed had been infinite; therefore concluding that the speed of light must be finite. No wonder it would take a person on earth 8 minutes to be aware of the fact that all of Sun's fuel has exhausted, would it ever happen. No wonder when we view the universe we only see what had happened in the past. No wonder Stephen Hawking illustrated his book with the space-time diagrams of Light Cones.

-| AG.

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