3:05 PM, I am driving with my friend John around the city. Copenhagen - the busy city life. Sunbeams are penetrating through the front window like there was no window at all. And just like that, a thought pops into my mind: "What if we could travel at the speed of light? How would it feel like?"

So I come home and do a little research about it.

The Speed of Light

The actual speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second or 1080 million kilometers per hour (1.08×109). Crazy, eh? Thanks toWikipedia.

Okay, let's take an example to illustrate that. How long would it take to travel from Earth to the Moon at the speed of light? The answer is 1.3 seconds! It would look something like this.

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Now that's what I call The Fast and The Furious. Lol.

Moreover, here is a video done by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to illustrate the speed of light using one trillion frames per second.

Last but not least, some time ago astronomers came up with the distance unit called the light year which is the distance the light travels in a year.

So if the distance from point A (you) to point B (your favorite dessert) is 1 light year away you will have to travel the whole year at the speed of light in order to reach your dessert.

Here are some REAL mind-blowing distances in light years:

25 000 from Earth to the nearest Galaxy - the Canis Major Dwarf
100 000 across our Galaxy - the Milky Way
46.5 billion (yes, BILLION) from Earth to the edge of the observable universe

What would be the thing or a person or anything you would travel 1 light year for?