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Speed

SciShow Tangents

CHAPTER

The Speed of Light

Speed is the rate at which some an object, anything's position changes. It's distance divided by time is the equation to calculate it. Even the slowest of the slow sloths go about their day without thinking of that though. The ever ticking clock leads us to measure thought or art, but to take the steps to know and grow, you don't need a breakneck start. Speed for most of its existence in the English language meant not the fastness of something; it meant things like power might. And they just claimed speed for that word starting around 1300s when scientists started getting more sciencey. But I think that has eclipsed these other meanings of speed as we move on

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