Rosa Parks sparks Civil Rights Movement. On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks, an African-American, was arrested and charged with violating a Montgomery, Ala., ordinance that required her to relinquish her bus seat to a white passenger. Her act of defiance sparked a yearlong bus boycott in the segregated city.
View full size image. The speed of light in a vacuum is 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second), and in theory nothing can travel faster than light. In miles per hour, light speed is, well, a lot: about 670,616,629 mph. If you could travel at the speed of light, you could go around the Earth 7.5 times in one second.
But from the âperspectiveâ of the light, it travels zero distance in zero time. Frustratingly, no one is âcorrectâ and surprisingly this doesnât cause a problem. The problem arises when calculations explode to values of infinity near the speed of light and become infinite at the speed of light.