speed of light

light

trivia

time

energy

matter

photon

physics

principle of the speed of light

relativity

rhetorical question

one-liner

space travel

speed

snail

is impossible to travel faster than, and it is certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

is just the maximum rendering speed of the universe

The speed of light is just the maximum rendering speed of the universe

is that speed at which nothing can travel faster than, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.

is both enabling and limiting. It is the condition of possibility for the visibility of phenomena but as such limits the manner in which they may appear.

Once again this means that speed, in this case the speed of light, is both enabling and limiting. It is the condition of possibility for the visibility of phenomena but as such limits the manner in which they may appear. In order to understand this rather difficult conception a further example may be helpful. Throughout Polar Inertia Virilio makes explicit and regular reference to scientific thought and discovery and, in particular, to the theory of relativity given by Albert Einstein. His interest is specifically in the manner in which Einstein's insights altered the manner in which the physical universe was conceived, marking a break from the Newtonian view of the universe. Einstein's discovery of the universal constant C (the speed of light as it passes through a vacuum) altered the relation of any observer to perceivable phenomena and, famously of course, altered scientific conceptions of space and time (giving rise to Einsteinian space-time understood as a fourdimensional continuum of one temporal and three spatial co-ordinates in which any event or object can be located). p.35

is eternity --- if one moves at the speed of light, where time slows down to the point where there is no time whatsoever, then one exists in eternity, one has become eternal. One is apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.

There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever One exists in eternity, one has become eternal One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.

is always getting here way too early in the morning.

speed of light, n.All

speed of light