The Science of Seconds

April 30, 2020 scifishorts 0

For you to understand the god-damn enormity of my task means I have to explain it to you. I don’t want to because seconds count, but I will anyway.

It’s this: light travels very fast. In one second it will cross 186,282.40 miles. A photon leaving Earth will travel beyond the orbit of the moon in the time it takes to make two strides.