The travel time of sound in tissue is about 1500 meters per second ; ;

After it has reached terminal velocity, the time for the tape to travel a known distance is recorded.

It is not through space nor time that the time machine most approved by science fiction must travel for a visit to the permanent prehistoric past, or the ever-existent past-fantasy future.

He left his native country to travel in pursuit of knowledge, and came to Athens about 589 BC, at a time when Solon was occupied with his legislative measures.

If the fletching is not arranged to induce rotation, it will still improve accuracy by causing a restoring drag any time the arrow tilts away from its intended direction of travel.

See time travel and faster-than-light for more discussion of these issues.

Light-time correction depends upon the velocity and distance of the emitting object during the time it takes for its light to travel to Earth.

However, if light travels at finite speed, the Earth, and therefore the eye piece of the telescope, moves from E to E ′ during the time it takes light to travel from S to E. Consequently, the star will no longer appear in the center of the eye piece.

Whorf considered using the money to travel to Mexico to procure Aztec manuscripts for the Watkinson library, but Tozzer suggested he spend the time in Mexico documenting modern Nahuatl dialects.

The butterfly effect is a common trope in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with hypotheses where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.

The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events first appears in " A Sound of Thunder ", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel ( see Literature and print here ).

The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.

Within Switzerland, Basel was chosen largely because of its location, with excellent railway connections in all directions, especially important at a time when most international travel was by train.

Such free travel was unheard of at the time in the Eastern Bloc countries, and in some western countries as well ( e. g. Spain or Portugal, both dictatorships at the time ).

The war-time restrictions on travel made this a boom time for Hollywood, and nearly a quarter of the money spent on attending movies.

Love used the money to travel to Ireland where she took two semesters at Trinity College studying theology, and briefly reunited with her father, who was living there at the time.

This is totally spurious, since no matter who measured first the other will measure the opposite spin despite the fact that ( in theory ) the other has a 50 % ' probability ' ( 50: 50 chance ) of measuring the same spin, unless data about the first spin measurement has somehow passed faster than light ( of course TI gets around the light speed limit by having information travel backwards in time instead ).

Criticisms and disadvantages of cycling include reduced protection in crashes, particularly with motor vehicles, longer travel time ( except in densely populated areas ), vulnerability to weather conditions, difficulty in transporting passengers, and the skill and fitness required.

The fatality and serious injury rates per hour of travel are just over double for cycling than for walking ( owing to the reduced travel time ), in the UK.

At the time of his death, he was planning to direct a movie about space travel.

A causal loop is a form of predestination paradox arising where travel backwards in time is deemed a possibility.

A sufficiently powerful entity in such a world would have the capacity to travel backwards in time to a point before its own existence, and to then create itself, thereby initiating everything which follows from it.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.

Some scholars have doubted the accuracy of this tale, saying among other things that the method would have required precise measurements that would have been difficult to make at the time.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

In June of 2012, Alex Schattner founded a blog featuring “ Modern American Folktales .” With this blog, Mr. Schattner is creating a new anthology of stories that use traditional folk and fairy tale devices to convey moral messages for our time.

Special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya was planning on working on other projects at this point in time such as a new version of a fairy tale film script called Kaguyahime ( Princess Kaguya ), but he postponed those to work on this project with Toho instead since he was such a huge fan of King Kong.

Transmuting the Gothic novel into a comprehendible tale for the imaginative eighteenth-century woman was useful for the Female Gothic writers of the time.

From dusk on into the night, the passage of time and the darkening sky that proceeds Marlow's narrative serves as a preamble to the atmosphere and tone for the events described within his upcomming tale.

However, the story remained a relatively shallow tale — a celebration of US conquest and personal adventures — until the mid-century, since which time the history has been more thoroughly researched and retold in many forms to a growing and appreciative audience.

" Both during his life and for a long time after, efforts were made by many to reclaim Sterne as an arch-sentimentalist ; parts of Tristram Shandy, such as the tale of Le Fever, were excerpted and published separately to wide acclaim from the moralists of the day.

Another tale tells of a man named Wu Liang ( later corrupted to Wu Long, or Oolong ) who discovered oolong tea by accident when he was distracted by a deer after a hard day's tea-picking, and by the time he remembered to return to the tea it had already started to oxidize.

The tale of Punch and Judy, as previously with Punchinello and Joan, varies from puppeteer to puppeteer and has changed over time.

In another time-travel tale, The Shield of Time, a " time policeman " from the Twentieth Century, equipped with information and technologies from much further in the future, is outwitted by a medieval knight and barely escapes with his life.

Scott decided to create a " once upon a time " tale set in a world of princesses, unicorns and goblins, filming almost entirely inside the studio.

King has indicated that he and Straub will likely write the third and concluding book in this series, the tale of Jack Sawyer, but has set no time for its completion.

This tale also includes another Dante reference, this time to Inferno, xvi, 66.

Boccaccio, though, may have directly taken the tale from The Seven Wise Masters, which, although oriental in origin, was widely circulating in Latin at the time the Decameron was written.

Another one of the earliest known stories to involve traveling forward in time to a distant future was the Japanese tale of " Urashima Tarō ", first described in the Nihongi ( 720 ).

According to this tale, the phrase was shortened over time to BBCue, then BBQ.

From this time forward his literary activity became very great ; in 1811 he published the Oriental tale of Ali og Gulhyndi, and in 1812 the last of his great tragedies, Stærkodder.

The Skeptical School of early Chinese history, started by Gu Jiegang in the 1920s, was the first group of scholars within China to seriously question the traditional story of its early history: " the later the time, the longer the legendary period of earlier history ... early Chinese history is a tale told and retold for generations, during which new elements were added to the front end ".

Together with the common beginning " once upon a time " it means a fairy tale or a märchen was originally a little story from long time ago, when the world was still magic.

The fairy tale itself became popular among the précieuses of upper-class France ( 1690 – 1710 ), and among the tales told in that time were the ones of La Fontaine and the Contes of Charles Perrault ( 1697 ), who fixed the forms of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

Whittington may have become associated with a thirteenth-century Persian folktale about an orphan who gained a fortune through his cat, but the tale was common throughout Europe at that time.