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Things move in oscillating patterns. Light, sound, and other kinds of waves are on a completely different level than falling apples.
Article	Description	Updated
Waves	:: What makes objects coming closer sound different than objects moving away? :: Did you know that things approaching you are more blue than those moving away from you? :: Read more ::	25 March 2003
Light and Photons	:: Find out the truth about light. :: Learn how it can exist in the form of waves and particles, and how a particle can exist in two places at once! :: Read more ::	25 March 2003
Hawking Radiation	:: Discover how super strong black holes actually emit energy! :: The process governs the strength and power of these monsters. :: Read more ::	25 March 2003
Red and Blue Shifts	:: Find out how the pioneers of cosmology found the information necessary to prove the Big Bang with only a telescope and a spectrograph. :: Entrance yourself in the philosophy of whether the red shift means eternal expansion, or something more simple. :: Read more ::	25 March 2003

Article: Light and Photons

" Light is a very strange entity. It does not have mass in that classical sense, but in the modern sense in that it has the ability to interact with other objects. Light travels always at the same fixed speed of approximately 300,000 km/sec. To understand what a mammoth speed this is, think of it as traveling around the world about eight times in one second. "

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Article: Red and Blue Shifts

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