How big is a light-year? 🤯 It's not a measure of time, but a measure of distance—the distance light travels in one year! That's about $9.46$ trillion kilometers ($5.88$ trillion miles)! This video perfectly illustrates the staggering scale of our universe, from light-seconds to the 100,000 light-year width of the Milky Way. Space is truly vast! ✨
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If you could travel away from Earth at the speed of light, the journey would feel almost endless. You’d pass the Moon in seconds, leave the Sun behind in minutes, and exit the entire Solar System within a single day.
After about 100,000 years, you’d cross the vast width of the Milky Way. Millions of years later, you’d drift through the immense emptiness between galaxies. And even after billions of years of travel, you still wouldn’t reach an “edge.”
That’s because the universe doesn’t end like a wall. It’s constantly expanding, stretching space itself as you move. The farther you go, the more universe unfolds ahead of you.
So running from Earth at light speed wouldn’t lead you to the end of the cosmos — it would only reveal how boundless it truly is. 🌌✨
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Gave LightSpeed a test drive today! DEMO account to be clear! Wanted to test the functionality, got to say I enjoyed it.
Lightspeed is painfully slow!
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Lightspeed to Sacramento! 🤣
Yes, it does snow in California!😂 This was filmed along I-89 near Colfax, CA as we experience a winter storm. Stay safe out there on the roads!
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The struggles of an overhead trim crank 😅
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And somehow everything gets so quiet 😊
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Lightspeed engaged us as their motion partner to showcase their powerful tools that empower Hospitality and Retail businesses.
By crafting a punchy script and storyboard to leverage Lightspeed’s brand assets, we made an animation to excite users about how the platform helps businesses streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and achieve scalability.
🔊 Sound on!
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Blink and you’ll miss it!
Lightning is incredibly quick but also incredibly beautiful, if you look at it more closely. Here‘s some clips revealing at least a tiny bit of the branching that often occurs before those strikes. This is, where the electricity searches the way of least resistance and you can slow this down almost indefinitely and will still see some junping in between, it‘s just so fast!
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This video captures a clever classroom experiment that demonstrates the concept of light visibility and scattering.
Normally, we can't see a laser beam "in mid-air" because the light is traveling in a straight line away from us. We only see the light when it hits a surface (like a wall) and reflects directly into our eyes.
In this demonstration, the teacher uses a diffraction grating or a specialized lens to split a single laser into multiple beams. To make the beams visible throughout the room, there are likely small particles in the air (like dust, smoke, or chalk powder). These particles catch the light and scatter it in all directions, allowing the students to see the "paths" of the beams as if they were solid lines.
Key Science Concepts
Rectilinear Propagation: Light travels in straight lines.
Scattering: Light bouncing off microscopic particles in the air to become visible from the side.
Tyndall Effect: The scattering of light by particles in a colloid or a very fine suspension.
Credit @esigul_meral
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The light you see is never in real time
From the Sun to Earth, sunlight takes over 8 minutes to reach us, which means every moment you experience is already in the past
As distance increases across the solar system, that delay grows into hours by the time it reaches Neptune and even longer toward Pluto
You are not seeing the universe as it is
You are seeing it as it was
What surprised you the most about light travel time
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