Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year agoI can whistle at the speed of soundsh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square123linkfedilinkarrow-up11.15Karrow-down19
arrow-up11.14Karrow-down1external-linkI can whistle at the speed of soundsh.itjust.worksSjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square123linkfedilink
minus-squareDavidGarcia@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·1 year agouh ackchuyally it’s not the speed of light
minus-squarerustyfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down3·edit-21 year ago it’s not. Light only travels at c in a vacuum. Looks like I am light years away from joining the ackchyually club.
minus-squareBilbo@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·1 year agoIf you really want to be pedantic, c is the notation for the “speed of light in a vacuum”, not just the “speed of light”, which depends on the medium.
minus-squarerustyfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoWhich is what I was going for. But as flughoernchen already said, it can. Now we just have to bring that laser into space. Or shoot into outer space. An idea so cool, I’m disappointed I didn’t think of it.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoBut it’s a laser. However fast it’s going, it’s going the speed of itself! “Ackchyually” indeed, LOL
minus-squareKaryoplasma@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoDoes not make it “not the speed of light”, only not c. Also the laser would fire particles with the speed of c if fired in a vacuum.
minus-squareflughoernchen@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoHeadline says that it can fire at the speed of light though not that it does.
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minus-squarerustyfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThat’s what I wrote. Literally.
minus-squareCroquette@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·1 year agoI am being pedantic here, but if the laser travel at the same speed as c in a given medium, then it is going at the speed of light.
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoSomebody failed their pedantry 101
uh ackchuyally it’s not the speed of light
Uhm ackshully it is
it’s not. Light only travels at c in a vacuum.Looks like I am light years away from joining the ackchyually club.
If you really want to be pedantic, c is the notation for the “speed of light in a vacuum”, not just the “speed of light”, which depends on the medium.
Which is what I was going for. But as flughoernchen already said, it can.
Now we just have to bring that laser into space. Or shoot into outer space. An idea so cool, I’m disappointed I didn’t think of it.
But it’s a laser. However fast it’s going, it’s going the speed of itself!
“Ackchyually” indeed, LOL
Does not make it “not the speed of light”, only not c. Also the laser would fire particles with the speed of c if fired in a vacuum.
Headline says that it can fire at the speed of light though not that it does.
…point taken.
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That’s what I wrote. Literally.
I am being pedantic here, but if the laser travel at the same speed as c in a given medium, then it is going at the speed of light.
Somebody failed their pedantry 101