Superluminal

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superluminal

Title text: SMBC: Now 98% little girls talking about physics.

Votey

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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

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Ignorant swine / )

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