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Gravity has a speed of light
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Gravity has a speed of light

Chinese scientists claim to have found important evidence for the hypothesis that gravity moves at the speed of light, based on data collected from the tide.

December 18, 2018
Redo the experiment 'faster than light'
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Redo the experiment 'faster than light'

After announcing neutrinos move faster than light last month, physicists from the European Atomic Research Organization (CERN) decided to repeat the experiment in a diff…

December 18, 2018
The speed of light depends on the direction
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The speed of light depends on the direction

Light does not go at the same speed in all directions under the influence of the electromagnetic field. Although it has been theoretically predicted, this first counteri…

December 18, 2018
The speed of light is slower than we thought?
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The speed of light is slower than we thought?

An American scientist claimed to have found evidence that the speed of light described by Einstein's general theory of relativity was slower than the long-held assumptio…

December 17, 2018
Things you don't know about the speed of light
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Things you don't know about the speed of light

Light moves at a speed of nearly 300,000 km / sec (about 1 billion km per hour). It only takes more than a second to reach the moon and about 8 minutes to reach the Sun.

December 17, 2018
Video: Redo the experiment 'faster than light'
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Video: Redo the experiment 'faster than light'

Last month physicists of the European Atomic Research Organization (CERN) fired 15,000 streams of neutrino particles with a large particle accelerator from Geneva to the…

December 15, 2018