{"id":28494,"date":"2023-02-08T20:56:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T19:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28494"},"modified":"2023-02-08T20:59:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T19:59:46","slug":"an-interesting-scientific-question-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28494","title":{"rendered":"An interesting scientific question for you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you were able to fly at the speed of light while holding a mirror in front of your face, would you see your own reflection?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer is: yes &#8211; because the speed of light in a vacuum is a fundamental constant of nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This question and answer comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Audible-The-Joy-of-Science\/dp\/B09V3GRYCB\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ZPHM8MAQE7R8&amp;keywords=the+joy+of+science&amp;qid=1675886243&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=The+Joy+Of+Science%2Cstripbooks%2C70&amp;sr=1-1\">&#8220;The Joy Of Science&#8221;<\/a> by Jim Al-Khalili which I&#8217;m reading just now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were able to fly at the speed of light while holding a mirror in front of your face, would you see your own reflection? The answer is: yes &#8211; because the speed of light in a vacuum is a fundamental constant of nature. This question and answer comes from &#8220;The Joy Of Science&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28497,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28494\/revisions\/28497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}