In my attempt to appear that I possess a higher intelligence than my fellow GetBiggers, I Googled “Speed of Light” and rediscovered some interesting information that will be soon forgotten again.
The Speed of Light per second is 186,000 miles per second … which I have to presume proves that time itself does in fact exist. (Or am I mistaken?)
A Light Year isthe distance that light travels (through a vacuum) in one year.
(A year is a measurement of time, I think!)
The nearest star (other than the Sun) is 4.3 light years away. (Another mention of "time" and the universal reliance on it.)
Our galaxy (the Milky Way) is about 100,000 light years in diameter. ("Time" mentioned time and time again.)
The distance to the galaxy M87 in the Virgo cluster is 50 million light years.
The distance to most distant object seen in the universe is about 18 billion light years (18 x 10^9 light years).
Looking Back in Time - Because light travels at a large but finite speed, it takes time for light to cover large distances. Thus, when we see the light of very distant objects in the universe, we are actually seeing light emitted from them a long time ago: we see them literally as they were in the distant past.
And I still got no idea what time is!.
But of most importance ...... due to the fact that someone recently discovered an element that travels faster than the Speed of Light could simply mean that …. 186,000 miles per second is incorrect and invalid and should be adjusted to the speed of that fastest element?
Or maybe they are just too damn smart to realize that.
The smartest friend I ever had could not tie his own shoelaces so he wore loafers throughout his short lifetime.
So the next time you start discussing smart-shit stuff like this with someone, lower your eyes and look at his shoes.
I wear sneakers!