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Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe

Unfallversicherung writes "'If you're light, it's fairly easy to travel at your own speed -- that is to say 186,282 miles per second or 299,800 kilometers per second. But if you are matter, then it's another matter altogether.' Astronomers are now measuring matter that moves at 99.9 percent of light-speed. Jupiter-sized blobs of hot gas embedded in streams of material ejected from hyperactive galaxies known as blazars."

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  1. Re:Not so fast by RWerp · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who the f... modded it as Insightful???? Principle of relativity is widely known.

    This matter won't go much faster because c is the higher bound to speed of massive particles. Now please mod me as Insightful, Informative and Interesting.

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  2. and here i thought by dlt074 · · Score: -1, Troll

    the only superheated gas to be able to reach that speed was the mass of lies spewed from michael moore's fat mouth.