{"id":977,"date":"2010-01-27T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T23:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=977"},"modified":"2010-01-27T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T23:23:29","slug":"theory-of-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/theory-of-relativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory of Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/black_holes_the_other_side_of_infinity?c=News-and-Information\/Science-and-Technology\">this Hulu.com documentary on black holes<\/a> that mentions relativity and how light and time bend in response to the gravitational pull of the black hole. <\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutscience.org\/theory-of-relativity.htm\">this article<\/a> on relativity, which describes how light is a constant speed in a vacuum, such as space, and is a physical boundary of motion for objects. That is, it is not possible to move faster than the speed of light. <\/p>\n<p>For humans viewing something moving at the speed of light, we perceive that something moving much slower than it really is &#8211; which makes sense if you consider that an airplane flying far away in the sky appears to be moving quite slowly when we logically know it&#8217;s moving quite fast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this Hulu.com documentary on black holes that mentions relativity and how light and time bend in response to the gravitational pull of the black hole. I found this article on relativity, which describes how light is a constant speed in a vacuum, such as space, and is a physical boundary of motion for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/theory-of-relativity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Theory of Relativity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[179],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}