Choose the BEST answer to the following: If you were to travel at a speed close to that of the speed of light, you could notice that your own (a) mass changes. (b) pulse decreases. (c) Both of these. (d) Neither of these.

Choose the BEST answer to the following: If you were to travel at a speed close to that of the speed of light, you could notice that your own (a) mass changes. (b) pulse decreases. (c) Both of these. (d) Neither of these.

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Choose the BEST answer to the following:

If you were to travel at a speed close to that of the speed of light, you could notice that your own

(a) mass changes.

(b) pulse decreases.

(d) Neither of these.

Definition Definition Rate at which light travels, measured in a vacuum. The speed of light is a universal physical constant used in many areas of physics, most commonly denoted by the letter c . The value of the speed of light c = 299,792,458 m/s, but for most of the calculations, the value of the speed of light is approximated as c = 3 x 10 8 m/s.

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