In the course of doing the experiments, the researchers noticed that the particles showed up a few billionths of a second sooner than light would over the same distance.

在实验的过程中，研究人员发现这些粒子的用时比光要少了几十亿分之一秒。

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Light travels faster than sound at the speed of 300,000 kilometres per second.

光速比声速要快，为每秒钟30万公里。

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According to Einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity, nothing is meant to be able to go faster than the speed of light — 186, 282 miles per second.

根据爱因斯坦1905年发表的相对论，任何物体的速度都不可能超越光速，即186282英里/秒。

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They had a slightly larger yard than most of their crammed-in neighbors, so they had closed it off with sheets of rusty corrugated metal, and there, at four long wooden tables beneath a string of light bulbs which dangled from a second-story clostra-block window, they served up to thirty customers per night, if the turnover was fast.

NEWYORKER: Ghosts

But after Broad had sent down a wide and two legitimate deliveries - the second of which trapped Denesh Ramdin lbw - the batsmen were offered the light, and Dyson beckoned his batsmen into the pavilion.

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Wait a second, I see a flashing light -- I see one, and it looks like -- yep, yep, the light is Santa.

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