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The Light Pulse Is Coming In, Exactly?

The light pulse in that moment, from hundred and 86 thousand miles per second to 15 miles per hour. You can't catch it because when the light gets to the other side of the atom cloud, te the front edge will accelerate back up to this enormous normal light speed,. And then it rush us off.

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