{"484011":{"#nid":"484011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech+Knowledge+Y: Light Speed","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStar Wars hero Han Solo isn\u2019t a bashful hero. So it\u2019s no surprise that it took him only a few moments after we first met him to brag that his Millennium Falcon was the \u201cfastest ship in the galaxy.\u201d But how fast is fast? Solo said his ship can go .5 past light speed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this edition of Tech+Knowledge+Y, School of Physics Associate Professor Deirdre Shoemaker explains how fast light speed really is, why it\u2019s not fast enough and what needs to happen for something to actually travel 186,000 miles per second.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/science-star-wars\u0022\u003EAfterwards, check out more on the Science of Star Wars. \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this edition of Tech+Knowledge+Y, Deirdre Shoemaker from the College of Sciences discusses light speed and its possibilites.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"How fast is light speed and is it possible?"}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2016-01-08 17:55:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:20","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/science-star-wars","title":"The Science of Star Wars"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"170734","name":"Light Speed"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003ENational Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}