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#18

According to Einstein, time slows down as you approach the speed of light. In other words, if you ride around on a beam of light, you could get anywhere in the universe instantaneously -- but when you arrived, everyone you ever knew on Earth would probably be long dead. I find it curious that the speed of light is a universal constant. You can't travel faster than light. If two cars are zooming along at different speeds and both have their headlights on, the light travels from their headlights at the same speed. In other words, velocity can't be precisely defined relative to that of other objects but rather to an unknown but fixed, absolute point that is "standing still." In short, I think "Einstein's Theory of Relativity" is a stupid name for this theory.