
Can you outrun a flash of light?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Can You Outrun a Flash of Light?
Most people say that maybe not, because you can't go faster than the speed of light. But what we discover is that it's not true at very, very high speeds. And most specifically, it's not true for light. So if i'm standing in a car and i shine a flashlight, how fast is the light leaving my flashlight? Well, the speed oflight. All right, some pretty good answers here. Somebody said you can't outrun the flashlight itself. I feel like that's a different philosophical question. Or is the light part of the flashlight after all? Will it always be does a flashlight have infinite extent because of the photons that come out of it.? It
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