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Can You Say Fast?
Light travels at 186,000 miles per SECOND!
At nearly the speed of light, CEBAF's electron beam orbits the 7/8 mile track 5 times in 30 millionths of a second.
How far would it go in one second?
FAR!!
In one second CEBAF's electron beam would circle the earth 7 ½ times!!