Just as you can write a great sci-fi TV series by entirely ignoring all of the physics of faster than light travel.
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Everything takes a good hit here, from the absurdity of common sci-fi tropes like faster than light travel, ninjas, travel agents and tourists.
To make the light travel enormous distances, thousands of volts of electricity are sent through the cable's copper sleeve to power repeaters, each the size and roughly the shape of a bluefin tuna.
They then removed some of the posts, creating a twisting path for the light to travel.
Also, this same scientist erroneously believed that all colors in the light spectrum travel at the same speed.
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This is repeated about 60 times per image as the camera measures how long it takes for the light to travel back and where the particles land.
Murphy, who was warned about his future tackling technique, is now given the green light to travel to the South of France to play Catalan on Sunday.
The camera works, the team explained, by bouncing lasers off distant objects, and measuring the time it takes for the light to travel back to the detector.
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By carefully tailoring the semiconductor layers, the researchers can make lasers that shine in two bands of infra-red light to which the atmosphere is highly transparent allowing the light to travel a long way.
Sunday is a light air travel day, but by Monday the effects of the furloughs should start to "snowball, " creating an air travel mess the equivalent of having a "Hurricane Sandy in the North and Hurricane Katrina in the South, " said Lee Moak, president of the pilots union.
But psyllids are light and can travel on the wind, so they could simply have been blown there.
For those who prefer to travel light--no phone, no laptop, no major purchases abroad--there's always the tried-and-true phone card.
No wonder businesses are so reluctant to hire: When you don't know how steep the trail ahead of you is, it's usually better to travel light.
The device will run for about three hours in XP mode and 8-12 hours as a smartphone, and is targeted at execs and salespeople who want to travel light.
In light of the travel advisories by the American and British governments, Cyrus Guzder, chairman of travel firm Carlson Wagonlit Travel India, worries that the high tourist season that is just beginning will see a raft of cancelations.
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Importers argue that the tests are absurd for small light cars designed to travel slowly in cities.
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This helps "recycle" any light rays which fail to travel the desired path.
The series will showcase the talent and wanderlust of globe-trotter Danielle Robb, a guiding light on real estate, travel, and business.
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The final nail in the coffin may have been dealt to the idea that neutrino particles can travel faster than light.
At the time, the physicists were stunned because such a result seemed to break Einstein's prediction that nothing could travel faster than light.
Though just six months, she is always excited to be outdoors, to travel and to light up the mood of strangers she meets with her charming smile.
"We welcome the decision by the Scottish government to safeguard the concessionary travel scheme in light of increased prices on some many other day to day items, " she said.
If the belligerents are hurtling missiles at each other that travel faster than light, it might be difficult to prosecute a war for resources without destroying the planets that have the resources they covet.
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The light it cast was enough to travel by without using their night-vision goggles.
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Even at the speed of radio (ie, the speed of light), a pulse will travel only a few millimetres in that time.
One peculiarity of massless particles is that they have to travel at the speed of light.
Earth and Mars are so far apart that radio signals, which travel at the speed of light, take 13.8 minutes for a one-way journey.
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