Ask the Experts—November 2007

In this month’s column, the experts address the following questions: If you are in a car traveling at the speed of light, what would you observe if you turned on the headlights? and Given that absolute zero is the lower limit to temperature, a theoretical point at which particles would have zero velocity, could there be a hottest temperature, where particles would be limited by the speed of light, generally regarded as the “speed limit” of the universe?

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 11/1/2007Stock # tst07_074_08_78Volume 074Issue 08

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