Life Speed

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second, or around 186,282 miles per second. Pretty fast. So fast, that it takes 8.3 minutes for light to travel the 93 million miles from the Sun to reach the Earth . Since you’re reading this on a computing device, here’s a Hacker News post from 2017 that gives some tidbits on how fast modern computers are. Based on one calculation, a typical computer from 2017 can do 4 calculations in the time it takes a photon of light to travel from the monitor to your eyes.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.