{"id":137,"date":"2001-04-20T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-20T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=137"},"modified":"2007-12-30T23:40:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T07:40:31","slug":"constant-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Constant speed of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I liked this short description of the constancy of the speed of light from Scott Adam's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dilbert.com\/comics\/dilbert\/dnrc\/newsletter\/html\/newsletter26.html\">DNRC Newsletter #26<\/a> (October 1999):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did you know that if you got in a rocket ship and raced a beam of light, the light would always be faster than you by exactly the speed of light, no matter how fast you went? It sounds like a crackpot idea but it's Einstein's theory. Most scientists agree that Einstein is right even though it makes no sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this short description of the constancy of the speed of light from Scott Adam's DNRC Newsletter #26 (October 1999): Did you know that if you got in a rocket ship and raced a beam of light, the light would always be faster than <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=137\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}