Verb tense places an event in the present, the Simple Present Tense
As an object approaches the speed of light, its massrises.
In 1887, Albert Michelson and Edward Morley compared thespeed of light in the direction of the earth's motion with that at right anglesto the earth's motion.--Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
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