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How long will it take if you traveled at the speed of light to get to the sunfrom earth?
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∙ 14y ago
You can reach the Sun in 8 minutes.
Due to the speed of light, c = 3 · 108 m/s, and the distance between the Sun and us, 150 millions of km), it is inmediate to estimate, more or less, than the light that come from the Sun reaches the Earth in 8 minutes.
From this fact it arises something curious. If you look at the Sun (be careful, it's harmful for your eyes!) five minuts before it's gone, the light that you can see of course comes from the past (8 minutes in the past, exactly). But the point is that the Sun has already gone! So what you're looking at is something that happened in the past. It is like you were looking at an old picture of the Sun, not the actual one.
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