{"id":546,"date":"2023-03-10T22:15:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v-ger.ru\/en\/?p=546"},"modified":"2023-03-10T22:15:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:15:51","slug":"flying-at-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v-ger.ru\/en\/flying-at-the-speed-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying at the speed of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>speed of light<\/strong> is the absolute value of the speed of propagation of electromagnetic waves and the limiting speed of particles in nature. This speed is about 300,000 km\/s (more precisely, 299,792,458 m\/s). An elementary massless particle that can exist moving only at the speed of light is a photon or a quantum of electromagnetic radiation. The light that we see every day, the light of our Sun &#8211; all these are photons, particles that have traveled a long journey of 150,000,000 kilometers from the Sun to the Earth at a fantastic speed in just 8 minutes. 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