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Voyager 1 Once Again Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments (hackaday.com)
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[โ€“] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Another interesting way to conceptualize it is that the speed of light is infinite and it's causality/information that is limited to c. You shine a light at the moon and it takes 1.3 seconds for the "fact" that the light was turned on to propagate that far.

[โ€“] Wogi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Cixin Liu imagines exactly that towards the end of the Three Body series. Among other things, which make the series worth absolutely slogging through at points.