Nothing Can Go Faster Than The Speed Of Light - Deepstash

Nothing Can Go Faster Than The Speed Of Light

And this sounds like a really innocent assumption, but it has a truly fundamental consequence, which is fairly easy to understand actually. If you ask yourself whether you know if the screen in front of you is actually there right now, naively we would say, "Yes, of course it's there, I mean, I'm holding it my hand, or I see it directly in front of me." But, we just learned that the speed of light is finite, and nothing can go faster than the speed of light. So everything that we experience, everything that we see, we see it as it was a tiny little amount of time in the past.

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