“Inflation itself proceeds at a speed faster than the measured speed of light.”
John Moffat book Reinventing Gravity
Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 6, Inflation And Variable Speed Of Light (VSL), p. 102
“There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She started one day
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.”
A. H. Reginald Buller in Punch (Dec. 19, 1923): 591.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
The Spanish Student http://www.readbookonline.net/title/3208/, Act I, sc. iii (serenade) (1843).
Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921) British poet
"Light" (popularly known as "The Night has a Thousand Eyes"), published in The Spectator (October 1873).
Context: p>The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.</p
Douglas Adams book Mostly Harmless
Variant: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Source: Mostly Harmless
“Light was first
Through the Lord's word Named day:
Beauteous, bright creation!”
Cædmon (657–680) Ancient English poet
Creation. The First Day (c. 670).
“Light travels faster than sound. Isn't that why people appear bright before you hear them speak?”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“Ladies, whose bright eyes
Rain influence, and judge the prize.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 121
