According to science, the fastest speed possible for anything is the speed of light. The speed of light is?

Question

about 186,000 mile per second. That means that in one minute,light travels 11,160,000 miles.The star nearest Earth is the sun.Its about 93,000,000 miles from earth.Therefore,it takes sunlight about eight minutes to travel to Earth.so when you see the sun,you aren't seeing it as it was eight minutes ago.Since the stars are much farther away than our sun,imagine how far back in time youre seeing them.It's obvious that humans will never travel to planets around even the nearest stars.
Which statement is most likely to be opinion father than fact?
a.the fastest speed possible for anything is the speed of light.
b.Humans will never travel to planets around even the nearest stars
c.The star nearest Earth is the Sun.
d.When you see the Sun,you aren't seeing it as it is.

Answer 1

B seems to be the opinion.

Answer 2

First, let's be clear...what we call facts are just overwhelming consensus on opinions (conclusions) based on controlled experiments. So a fact is just a proved opinion.

In fact (pun intended), today's facts often become tomorrow's myths. Take the flat Earth, for example. It was a fact 600 years ago that Earth was flat. Then some daring do sailors sailed around the "flat" Earth to prove we lived on a sphere, not a pancake.

In science, an axiom is the highest level of fact...no rational person would deny the truth of an axiom. For example, it is axiomatic to say the sun rises each morning somewhere on Earth. This is axiomatic because mankind has been seeing the sun rise for thousands of years.

Theories rest below axioms. Theories are guesses that have been validated by controlled experiments. For example, Einstein's E = mc^2 theory has been validated over and over again in the lab as well as in practical applications of nuclear power. The speed of light limit is a theory that has been validated over and over.

Under theories, we have hypotheses. In the real world, we call them WAG's. These are guesses that have yet to be validated by a falsifiable test. String theory is such a hypothesis; nothing has been done to prove it as yet. Thus, the conculsions stemming from hypotheses might be considered opinions in that they are unsubstantiated conclusions.

So let's look at your answers in the context of axioms, theories, and hypotheses.

a.the fastest speed possible for anything is the speed of light.

Theory...the speed of light limits have been proved over and over again in the labs.

b.Humans will never travel to planets around even the nearest stars

Hypothesis...there is no falsifiable test for this. Therefore, the conclusion is an opinion.

c.The star nearest Earth is the Sun.

Theory...it might even be axiomatic, the boundry between an axiom and a theory is not precise. In any case, this is not an opinion in that Earth to star distances have been measured over and over.

d.When you see the Sun,you aren't seeing it as it is.

Theory...possibly hypothesis. This is a tough one because no one has really tested this. They've done tests simulating this conclusion, but we cannot really actually show the Sun has moved on some eight minutes or so when we see it on Earth. But because we can simulate this effect with a high degree of confidence, it's more a theory than a hypothesis; so this is not opinion.

Answer 3

if the speed of ligth as we measured relative to the earth was the maximun speed that anything in motion would achieve it would be a very large problem.
If your Soul goes to Heaven which is domain beyound the finte containment of this hughe Universe , you soul would take more than 15 billions of years to get there at the Known speed of light.

It is true what you say about the position of the Sun. The reason is that as soon as you see the sun ,due to the light information it sent , The suns has already moved the distance of 480 x12=4708 miles relative to the earth's motion.

The same scenario applies to all the stars in the Universe.