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==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Imagine you have a giant spotlight that you aim at a screen 50 trillion miles away and a trillion :The spotlight's beam is one degree wide, expanding out to reach the width of the screen. :Miles wide. :You flick your :Your hand crosses the beam in one second, and the shadow it casts transmits toward the giant screen. :Hand in front of the spotlight. :The shadow must therefore also cross the trillion mile :Thus, the shadow "moves" far faster :Than the speed :Wide screen in one :Of light. :Second :Of course, none of the photons go faster than :Thats the difference between real and unreal. :Light. Your hand doesn't move faster than light. :Nor does the screen. :Real stuff, like us, is stuck behind a cosmic speed limit. The shadows of reality go as fast as they like. :I think I would wiggle my fingers so a giant finger-man would run across the screen. :One must imagine :Sisyphus happy :smbc-comics.com
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