• Question: What is the second fastest thing ever known?

    Asked by anawesomepersonlol to Rob, Matt on 25 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Robert Woolfson

      Robert Woolfson answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      University students when there’s free alcohol involved.

      Otherwise, for the first time on I’m a scientist I have absolutely no idea.

    • Photo: Matthew Pankhurst

      Matthew Pankhurst answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      Well, light in a vacuum is the fastest thing… I guess the second fastest would be light in an almost vacuum!
      Check out this for a pretty technical description of how you can slow light down…
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light

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