Monday, June 14, 2010

Speed of light

The speed of light is recorded to be 299,792,458 meters per second which can simply be shortened to an approximate speed of 300,000 kilometers per second. The speed of light was defined rather recently, with its official discovery in 1975 when more precise instruments were created. Even way back in history, many scientists debated if light travelled instantaneously or merely very quickly. Even famous scienctists like Albert Einstein were also involved in the debate and as time passed more people began to prove that light's speed was finite. This discovery led to the limit to which miroprocessorscould operate at.

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