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Originally Posted by Roy
I'll warn you now though that we don't get it over here till the day after so please no spoilers in thread titles as I will avoid all big brother threads from now on  |
Excuse me Roy but,
The
speed of light (approximately 186,282.4 in a vacuum is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per secondmiles per second). The speed of light is denoted by the letter
c, reputedly from the Latin
celeritas, "speed", and also known as Einstein's constant. This exact speed is a definition, not a measurement, as the metre itself is defined in terms of the speed of light and the second. The speed of light through a medium (that is, not in vacuum) is less than
c (defining the refractive index of the medium). "Speed of light" is sometimes abbreviated SOL.
So how come it takes 24 hours for the prog' to reach you?
Even the light from the sun only takes eight minutes to get here!
Have the Russians developed something we in the west should know about?
Could they (please) actually eliminate this programme from our known space/time continuum?
