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It's not really about light. It's not so much the case that the speed of light is itself special, so much as it is that light (in a vacuum) travels at a special
by foerbert 5y ago
It's not really about light. It's not so much the case that the speed of light is itself special, so much as it is that light (in a vacuum) travels at a special speed. That speed is effectively that of causality, in the 'speed of the ability to cause' sense.
Trying to make conclusions about that by using simple analogies to light isn't likely to get you anywhere. You're not dealing with the actual thing you're interested in in the first place.
- dghf 5y agoI try to think about the speed of light as a geometric property of the universe, similar to how you can’t draw a straight line between two points on a circle that’s longer than the circle’s diameter. I don’t know if that’s correct, but the analogy helps me (until I think about it too hard, and then my head hurts).