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Einstein: What would it be like to ride a beam of light?
Einstein discovered that the faster you travel the slower time passes for you. But what happens when you hit the absolute speed limit for the universe – the speed of light? Physicist Steve Biller of Oxford University explains how the world would appear to have stopped around you if you rode on the back of a beam of light.
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