For the first time in history, scientists have succeeded in visually capturing the speed of light. Through an innovative use of high-speed photography and lasers, researchers have managed to ...

Everyone loves “break the record” stories—until physics shows up with a hard rule. The speed of light isn’t just fast, it’s ...

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Imagine you’re in a car driving across the country watching the landscape. A tree in the distance gets closer to your car, passes right by you, then moves off again in the distance behind you. Of ...

I am always drawn to the Large Hadron Collider when considering questions like this. The LHC has a diameter of about 8.5 kilometres. When operating, it uses the equivalent of about a third of the ...