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faster-than-light

Summary

faster-than-light ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (598 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • faster-than-light's image is recorded as Faster than light implies time travel diagram.svg[2].
  • faster-than-light's GND ID is recorded as 4186611-3[3].
  • faster-than-light's subclass of is recorded as velocity[4].
  • faster-than-light's Commons category is recorded as Faster-than-light travel[5].
  • faster-than-light's opposite of is recorded as slower-than-light[6].
  • faster-than-light's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0315n[7].
  • faster-than-light's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Faster-than-light travel[8].
  • faster-than-light's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/faster-than-light[9].
  • faster-than-light's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/tags/faster-than-light[10].
  • faster-than-light's greater than is recorded as speed of light in vacuum[11].
  • faster-than-light's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID is recorded as faster_than_light[12].
  • faster-than-light's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/FasterThanLightIndex[13].
  • faster-than-light's Lex ID is recorded as overlyshastighed[14].
  • faster-than-light's KBpedia ID is recorded as FasterThanLightTravel[15].
  • faster-than-light's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as sverkhsvetovaia-skorost-de014e[16].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for faster-than-light include FTL: Faster Than Light[17], a video game[18].

Why It Matters

faster-than-light ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (598 views/month).[1] faster-than-light has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] faster-than-light is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Entities named for faster-than-light include FTL: Faster Than Light[17], a video game[18].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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