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Solar System At Light Speed

To put this into a perspective you can think of yourself as a photon emitted by the sun. The 45 minute video created by los angeles based artist alphonse swinehart and posted on vimeo on jan.

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Solved The Solar System Is 25000 Light Years From The Ce

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If The Sun Suddenly Disappeared It Would Take About Eight

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18 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole Rotates At 13 Speed Of

It shows that even if you travel at the speed of light 186000 miles per second the trek from the sun to the earth and other planets takes a really long time.

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Solar system at light speed. All objects x1000 larger so you can see them. 26 starts at the sun and zooms out into the solar system. Riding light from alphonse swinehart on vimeo.

Solar system distances to scale. Real time speed of light is shown from the suns surface to other bodies. Occasionally at appropriate intervals a planet shoots past.

In the video we see how the sun would shrink if we were traveling away from it at the speed of light. Home leaving solar system at the speed of light our solar system is big and vast despite it is really small compared to our galaxy not to mention the complete universe. Saturn is still half an hour ahead.

The video lasts 45 minutes at which point we are less than two minutes past jupiter. If you take a particle and accelerate it close to the speed of light which is 299792458 meters per second or 186282 miles per second the energy required to move that particle becomes infinite.

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Solved Our Solar System Is 25000 Light Years From The Ce

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Watch What Our Solar System Would Look Like When Traveling

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