Re:They're made out of meat (1991)
by FredPret on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:18AM
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The speed of light is the speed at which events propagate.
Let’s say something happens 8 light-minutes away, for instance the sun explodes.
For the first 8 minutes, we’d live in a world where the sun hasn’t exploded yet. Then the event reaches us, and for the first time, we can get information about this event.
Perhaps a theoretical physicist can weigh in about whether bent space or a high-dimensional shortcut could change this.
Let’s say something happens 8 light-minutes away, for instance the sun explodes.
For the first 8 minutes, we’d live in a world where the sun hasn’t exploded yet. Then the event reaches us, and for the first time, we can get information about this event.
Perhaps a theoretical physicist can weigh in about whether bent space or a high-dimensional shortcut could change this.