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Beautiful đźĄesign of relativity. Curvature and space.
There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was faster than light. She set out one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.
Limerick (via nohelpwhatsoever)
The SciShow comment section is the best.
When Einstein was traveling to lecture in Spain, He questioned a conductor again and again: “It may be a while,” He asked with a smile, “But when does Madrid reach this train?”
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uhm. not to be pedantic, but this... isn’t quite how relativity works. Luna is, on average, 1.3 light-seconds from Earth. if a vessel made the trip around the moon at FTL speed, which it could not do because that’s not how velocity works, it would arrive roughly 2.6 seconds before it had left. assuming, of course, that you don’t subscribe to the notion that the universe can be treated holistically as one frame of reference. this was so close to being a cool and accurate sci-fi idea, but you missed the mark by about 3597.4 seconds.
NASA launches their Faster Than Light spacecraft and makes a round trip to the moon. Upon reentering earth’s orbit, they ask Houston for the time. Houston replies “Quit messing around with the coms, theres still an hour until launch”.