{"id":33399,"date":"2024-04-25T17:47:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=33399"},"modified":"2024-04-25T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:47:28","slug":"light-years-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/04\/25\/light-years-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Daniel\/The-Future\/multimedia\/Light-Years.mp3\"> Light Years.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Daniel\/The-Future\/multimedia\/Light-Years.mp4\"> Light Years.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Space Intro]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nWatch the future flee<br \/>\nAt light speed<br \/>\nWatch the past come<br \/>\nLight speed, undone<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nA glimpse of the past<br \/>\nMoving, passed fast<br \/>\nMaybe a hundred years ago<br \/>\nOr, so&#8230;<br \/>\n[Bridge]<br \/>\nMaybe billion or more<br \/>\nSo you know<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s to come before<br \/>\nSee the light might<br \/>\nShow us what&#8217;s in store<br \/>\n[Instrumental]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nThe past coming at you again<br \/>\nAt light speed<br \/>\nTomorrow, back to begin<br \/>\nLight speed freed<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nA glimpse of the past<br \/>\nMoving, passed fast<br \/>\nMaybe a hundred years ago<br \/>\nOr, so&#8230;<br \/>\n[Bridge]<br \/>\nMaybe billion or more<br \/>\nSo you know<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s to come before<br \/>\nSee the light might<br \/>\nShow us what&#8217;s in store<br \/>\n[Instrumental]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 3]<br \/>\nAt last, relive the past<br \/>\nBleed at light speed<br \/>\nTomorrow is here to last<br \/>\nLight speed freed<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nA glimpse of the past<br \/>\nMoving, passed fast<br \/>\nMaybe a hundred years ago<br \/>\nOr, so&#8230;<br \/>\n[Bridge]<br \/>\nMaybe billion or more<br \/>\nSo you know<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s to come before<br \/>\nSee the light might<br \/>\nShow us what&#8217;s in store<br \/>\n[Outro]<br \/>\nWatch the future flee<br \/>\nAt light speed<br \/>\nWatch the past come<br \/>\nLight speed, undone<br \/>\n[End]<br \/>\n[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>Light years allow us to see the past because light travels at a finite speed, approximately 299,792 kilometers per second (186,282 miles per second) in a vacuum. When we observe objects in space, we are actually seeing the light that they emitted in the past. Since light takes time to travel from distant objects to our eyes or telescopes, the farther away an object is, the longer it takes for its light to reach us.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if a star is located 100 light years away from Earth, the light we see from that star today actually left the star 100 years ago. Similarly, if we observe a galaxy that is millions or even billions of light years away, we are seeing the light that was emitted by the galaxy millions or billions of years ago. In essence, by looking at objects in space, we are looking back in time and gaining insights into the universe&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<h2>From the album: <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Daniel\/The-Future\/\">The Future<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light Years.mp3 Light Years.mp4 [Space Intro] [Verse 1] Watch the future flee At light speed Watch the past come Light speed, undone [Chorus] A glimpse of the past Moving, passed fast Maybe a hundred years ago Or, so&#8230; [Bridge] Maybe billion or more So you know What&#8217;s to come before See the light might Show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,14,3953],"tags":[546,563,857],"class_list":["post-33399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-the-future","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33403,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33399\/revisions\/33403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}