Fastest on Earth

Have you ever wondered about what could be the fastest thing on earth ????

Keep thinking as you read if you want. But the first thing that crossed my mind was an old joke....

Airplane : How do you fly so fast Mr.Rocket ??

Rocket : You'll know when your ass is on fire !!!!

...for which I smiled and got back to the process of thinking about what could be the fastest thing on earth. Though lot of things came to my mind, I thought I'll go for a second opinion. I asked my friend, for which he said "the blink is the fastest thing I know". That sounded rather perfect, “The blink of an eye", isn't that a very popular cliché for speed ? Now this thing has really gotten into my head and I started exploring more to find out few more possible answers.

"Fastest thing on  earth" is what I googled to get reminded of the great Galileo Galilei(1564-1642) who tried to measure the velocity of light by means of lantern signals between mountain tops. Naturally he failed. But the fact is - light travels about 186,270 miles (more than seven times the circumference of Earth) in one second.

Can you believe that ??? Most of us can't even turn our own head in a second.

Now this has really got me thinking a lot and has taken me back into my fifth standard hindi classes. That is where I actually learnt from one of my favorite teacher that the fastest thing on earth is the human thought. How amazing !!!! One moment I am sitting in the class room and even before I realize, I've landed in the beaches of Hawaii or my home at Ooty or Anjapar Restaurant where I enjoyed eating chicken wings for lunch today. I just realized that it is so fast that it also lets me travel in time and see my past and also dream about my future.