The fastest objects observed in the universe are blobs of superheated plasma, ejected from black holes in the cores of extremely active galaxies known as blazars. These blobs, with as much mass as the planet Jupiter, have been observed moving at 99.99% of the speed of light. According to Albert Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, the only thing capable of travelling at the speed of light, 299,792,458 m/s, is light itself. When matter is accelerated to significant fractions of the speed of light, it takes
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Kirk Swenson (USA) ran 1.6 km (1 mile) in 4 min 43 sec in 1986.
The fastest hat-trick scored by an individual ice hockey player in a National Hockey League game is 21 seconds by Bill Mosienko (Canada) playing for the Chicago Blackhawks against the New York Rangers on 23 March 1952.
The fastest average outright speed by an individual rider for the Isle of Man TT is 131.578mph by John McGuinness (UK) on a Honda CBR1000RR in 2009.
The quickest goal from the start of an overtime period was six seconds by Mats Sundin (Sweden), playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs, against the Blues in St. Louis on 30 December 1995. Simon Gagne’s (Canada) goal at 0:07 of overtime on 5 January 2006 at the New York Rangers (USA) at New York City’s Madison Square Garden was the second-fastest overtime goal since the five-minute overtime period was introduced for the 1983-84 season.
The fastest average speed for an overland journey to the South Pole is 21.37 km/h (13.28 mph) for a 2,308-km (1,434.12-mile) expedition by members of the Kazakh Geographic Society (Kazakhstan), between 4 and 8 December 2010. The Antarctic journey took 108 hours on board two modified Toyota Hilux 3L Turbo Diesel cars that ran on “Jet 1A fuel”. The team departed from Novolazarevskaya Station. The members of the expedition were Konstantin Orlov, Sergey Bodrov, Stanislav Makarenk, Hlynur Sigurdsson and Andrey Mueller.
The German Dornier DO-335 was unique in having a tractive (pulling) propeller in its nose and a propulsive (pushing) motor behind its cockpit, technology that at the time was totally new. It had a maximum sustained speed of 665 km/h (413 mph), increasing to 765 km/h (477 mph) with emergency boost. Two models existed (A-1 and A-6), the second one a a two-seater Nightfighter. Only 28 were completed before the end of WWII.
Mark Kislingbury of Houston, Texas, USA is the National Court Reporters Association speed and real-time champion, achieving 360 words per minute with 97.23% accuracy, at the NCRA 2004 summer convention on 30 July 2004.
Precise measurements in earthquake timings have revealed that the Earth’s inner core, a solid ball of iron and nickel around 2,442 km (1,517 miles) across, is spinning slightly faster than the outer liquid core and the rest of the Earth. Each year the inner core moves ahead of the Earth’s surface by around 0.3-0.5 degrees – a rate of around 50,000 times the speed that the Earth’s continental plates move apart.
The fastest sand skiing is 92.12 km/h (57.24 mph) by Henrik May (Namibia) in Swakopmund, Namibia, on 31 May 2010. May – who professionally operates dune skiing in the Namib Desert — sand skiied on the dunes between Swakopmund and Walvisbay. The timing was taken by ALGE-certified timer Eliane Sauter. May, 34 at the time of his record, was originally born in East Germany before moving to Namibia.