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  2. Rapid eye movement sleep - Wikipedia

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    Also, binocular REMs are non-conjugated (i.e., the two eyes do not point in the same direction at a time) and so lack a fixation point. In support of this theory, research finds that in goal-oriented dreams, eye gaze is directed towards the dream action, determined from correlations in the eye and body movements of REM sleep behavior disorder ...

  3. Interplanetary Transport Network - Wikipedia

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    The Interplanetary Transport Network (ITN) [1] is a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the Solar System that require very little energy for an object to follow. The ITN makes particular use of Lagrange points as locations where trajectories through space can be redirected using little or no energy.

  4. Interstellar travel - Wikipedia

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    A lower bound for the required energy is the kinetic energy = where is the final mass. If deceleration on arrival is desired and cannot be achieved by any means other than the engines of the ship, then the lower bound for the required energy is doubled to m v 2 {\displaystyle mv^{2}} .

  5. Measurements of neutrino speed - Wikipedia

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    Thus, they should travel at exactly the speed of light, according to special relativity. However, since the discovery of neutrino oscillations, it is assumed that they possess some small amount of mass. [1] Thus, they should travel slightly slower than light, otherwise their relativistic energy would become infinitely large. This energy is ...

  6. Alcubierre drive - Wikipedia

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    The Alcubierre drive ([alkuˈβjere]) is a speculative warp drive idea according to which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, under the assumption that a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (that is, negative mass) could be created.

  7. Tachyon - Wikipedia

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    Spacetime diagram showing that moving faster than light implies time travel in the context of special relativity. A spaceship departs from Earth from A to C slower than light. At B, Earth emits a tachyon, which travels faster than light but forward in time in Earth's reference frame. It reaches the spaceship at C.

  8. Speed of light - Wikipedia

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    It is possible for a particle to travel through a medium faster than the phase velocity of light in that medium (but still slower than c). When a charged particle does that in a dielectric material, the electromagnetic equivalent of a shock wave , known as Cherenkov radiation , is emitted.

  9. Kepler's laws of planetary motion - Wikipedia

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    The second law establishes that when a planet is closer to the Sun, it travels faster. The third law expresses that the farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer its orbital period. Isaac Newton showed in 1687 that relationships like Kepler's would apply in the Solar System as a consequence of his own laws of motion and law of universal ...