speed of light
The distance light can travel in a unit of time through a given substance. Light travels through a vacuum at about 186,000 miles, or 300,000 kilometers, per second. (See E = mc2, electromagnetic waves, relativity, and twin paradox.)
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A
light year, or the distance light can travel in a year, is over five trillion miles.
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Light from the
moon, and other
electromagnetic radiation from the moon, takes about a second and a half to reach the Earth. In conversations between
astronauts on the moon and their ground crews, there are lapses of about three seconds between exchanges, because of the time it takes for
radio waves to make a round trip between the Earth and the moon.
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The special
theory of
relativity states that the speed of light as measured by all observers is the same.
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