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The speed of light is a result of the laws of electromagnetism. No matter how fast you move the laws of electromagnetism and therefore the speed of light wont c
by contravariant 9y ago
The speed of light is a result of the laws of electromagnetism. No matter how fast you move the laws of electromagnetism and therefore the speed of light wont change.
I know of no way to make it intuitive though. Things improve slightly if you replace speed with 'rapidity' which places the speed of light at infinity, but then you get that objects with infinite rapidity don't travel instantly from one place to another (although this is true in some frames of reference).
- luk32 9y agoThe speed of light is, but it does not have anything to do with relativity. Those concepts are connected by the speed of light in vacuum, yes, but there is no logical reason for that. This was an educated guess, and was confirmed by observation it's not a conclusion. Einstein started to formulate special relativity theory starting from an assumption that a "ball of light" won't change its shape for non-inertial (no accelerarion) observers regardless of their respective speed. I.e. constant speed of light was the reason not a result of this theory. (Duh. This got lenghty.)
- contravariant 9y agoI'm not entirely sure what you're getting at. Actually I can't even parse the first two sentences, and the third seems to refute something I never claimed.