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- adjective Moving at a
speed very close to thespeed of light
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Examples
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Accelerate to relativistic, then ultrarelativistic speeds
Rules for Time Travelers Sean 2009
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As you reach relativistic recession velocity with respect to the projector, your movie winds up in slow motion and and much redder, then a slide show, then an almost entirely still image in the ultrarelativistic limit.
Rules for Time Travelers Sean 2009
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My (2) is a problem for me because as one reaches the ultrarelativistic limit photons from the blackbody radiator will still ultimately reach you even if highly redshifted.
Rules for Time Travelers Sean 2009
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The Higgs vacuum is a medium that is both ultrarelativistic (pressure ≫ energy density) and ultra-quantum, being a Bose-Einstein condensate with almost all its particles in the same quantum state.
Next Big Future 2009
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The degeneracy pressure of the object, however, is much larger, such that the star’s particles are ultrarelativistic and p = e/3, where e is the energy density and p is the pressure.
Dark Matter: Still Existing Sean 2007
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But on the other hand, ultrarelativistic objects don’t become black holes simply because they’re moving very fast.
Dark Matter: Still Existing Sean 2007
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