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Grid-System of our world

By Chris ⋅ December 22, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Atoms are really small. Dur, and within those really small atoms are even smaller particles, neutrons, electrons, and protons. Compared to each other and the size of an atom, the atom itself is about the size of Hawaii, where a neutron/proton is the size of a house, and an electron is the size of a […]

Speed of light my butt

By Chris ⋅ December 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

So a metre(er) is defined as the length that light travels in 1/299792458 of a second… Which is pretty stupid, since we don’t even know if light is constant..
So in the flashlight scenario [flashlight moving backwards at c, light shining back, and apparently (according to the theory of relativity) it would be moving at light […]

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