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  2. Faster-than-light - Wikipedia

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    Faster-than-light ( superluminal or supercausal) travel and communication are the conjectural propagation of matter or information faster than the speed of light ( c ). The special theory of relativity implies that only particles with zero rest mass (i.e., photons) may travel at the speed of light, and that nothing may travel faster.

  3. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun - Wikipedia

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    The LCD Soundsystem song "All My Friends" includes the lyric, "We set controls for the heart of the sun, one of the ways we show our age." The song can occasionally be heard in certain areas of maps in the 1998 video game LSD Dream Emulator. Personnel. Roger Waters – vocals, bass guitar, gong; Richard Wright – Farfisa organ, vibraphone, celesta

  4. Ptolemy's table of chords - Wikipedia

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    A chord of a circle is a line segment whose endpoints are on the circle. Ptolemy used a circle whose diameter is 120 parts. He tabulated the length of a chord whose endpoints are separated by an arc of n degrees, for n ranging from 1 2 to 180 by increments of 1 2. In modern notation, the length of the chord corresponding to an arc of θ degrees is.

  5. Brighter Than the Sun - Wikipedia

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    "Boy, we go together like peanuts and Paydays/ Marley and Reggae/ And everybody needs to get a chance to say/ Oh, this is how it starts/ Lightning strikes the heart/ It goes off like a gun/ Brighter than the sun." Critical reception. Amy Sciaretto from Artist Direct was positive, considering it "bright, airy, whisper-light, sweet and beachy!".

  6. The Chords (American band) - Wikipedia

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    The Chords were one of the early acts to be signed to Cat Records, a subsidiary label of Atlantic Records. Their debut single was a doo-wop version of a Patti Page song "Cross Over the Bridge", and the record label reluctantly allowed a number penned by the Chords on the B-side.

  7. Speed of light - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 300,000 kilometres per second; 186,000 miles per second; 671 million miles per hour).

  8. Canticle of the Sun - Wikipedia

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    Canticle of the Sun. Saint Francis of Assisi, Cigoli, c. 1600. The Canticle of the Sun, also known as Canticle of the Creatures and Laudes Creaturarum (Praise of the Creatures), is a religious song composed by Saint Francis of Assisi. It was written in an Umbrian dialect of Italian but has since been translated into many languages.

  9. A 16-year-old was just fractions of a second shy of becoming ...

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    June 24, 2024 at 10:11 PM. EUGENE, Ore. — Quincy Wilson, a 16-year-old from Bullis School outside Washington D.C., finished sixth with a time of 44.94 in Monday’s 400-meter final at the U.S ...