Radiation: Speed Of

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There are no instant lines--

Reaching instantly to eternity;

For the concepts

Of instantaneity, simultaneity, and eternity

Were anulled by the discovery

That light and all radiation

Have an approximately discrete speed

Of seven hundred million miles an hour,

which, of course, is too fast for man's

Perceptive detection,

But accounts lucidly

For humanity's assuming erroneously

That his sight experience

Is instantaneous.

Prior to the Michelson-Morley experiments--

Throughout all past history--

On every clear night

Man could seemingly witness for himself

The 'instantly eternal' stars.

However, with the measurement of light's

And of other