Sylvester started as a beautiful nowhere in 1893 and was first called Isabella Station. When the Brunswick and Albany Railroad came through southwest Georgia, the county seat was Isabella, which is located three miles north of the railroad.
It really is an incredibly long distance -- a lightyear is roughly 6 trillion miles or nearly 10 trillion kilometers. Here's how you calculate it. You start with the speed of light, which is about 186,000 miles per second. Then you multiply that by 3,600 seconds in an hour. Then you multiply that by 24 hours in a day.
Best Answer: A light year is the distance light travels in a year, so the time taken is the same as a year on earth (relative to the earth). But relative to the light itself, the time taken is zero; because at the speed of light, time diminishes to zero. So to us on earth, as we watched a beam of light travel one light year, it would seem to take one year; but if we were traveling on that light beam, it would seem to take no time at all. Source(s): AndrewG Â· 5 years ago. Thumbs up.