{"id":132290,"date":"2021-12-12T13:25:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/can-humans-even-reach-1-the-speed-of-light-ever"},"modified":"2021-12-12T13:25:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T21:25:03","slug":"can-humans-even-reach-1-the-speed-of-light-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/can-humans-even-reach-1-the-speed-of-light-ever","title":{"rendered":"Can Humans Even Reach 1% the Speed of Light Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-humans-even-reach-1-the-speed-of-light-ever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While 1% of anything doesn\u2019t sound like much, with light, that\u2019s still really fast \u2014 close to 7 million miles per hour! At 1% the speed of light, it would take a little over a second to get from Los Angeles to New York. This is more than 10,000 times faster than a commercial jet.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/bullets-vs-arrows-which-one-penetrates-sandbags\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/bullets-vs-arrows-which-one-penetrates-sandbags\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bullets can go 2,600 mph<\/a> (4,200 km\/h), more than three times the speed of sound. The fastest aircraft is NASA\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/tech\/the-8-fastest-man-made-objects-ever\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X3 jet plane<\/a> 0, with a top speed of 7,000 mph (11,200 km\/h). That sounds impressive, but it\u2019s still only 0.001% the speed of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While 1% of anything doesn\u2019t sound like much, with light, that\u2019s still really fast \u2014 close to 7 million miles per hour! At 1% the speed of light, it would take a little over a second to get from Los Angeles to New York. This is more than 10,000 times faster than a commercial jet. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}