Bibliography:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#First_measurement_attempts Rømer and Christiaan Huygens reached 26% accuracy by the observation of Jupiter's moon!
Replicating the Fizeau Apparatus by AlphaPhoenix (2018)
Source. Modern reconstruction with a laser and digital camera.It is so mind blowing that people believed in this theory. How can you think that, when you turn on a lamp and then you see? Obviously, the lamp must be emitting something!!!
Then comes along this epic 2002 paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12094435/ "Fundamentally misunderstanding visual perception. Adults' belief in visual emissions". TODO review methods...
One argument of why, is that if you could travel faster than light, then you could send a message to a point in Spacetime that is spacelike-separated from the present. But then since the target is spacelike separated, there exists a inertial frame of reference in which that event happens before the present, which would be hard to make sense of.
Spacetime diagram illustrating how faster-than-light travel implies time travel
. Legend an explanation are shown in this answer.Bibliography:
- physics.stackexchange.com/questions/13001/does-superluminal-travel-imply-travelling-back-in-time/615079#615079
- physics.stackexchange.com/questions/574395/why-would-ftl-imply-time-travel
- physics.stackexchange.com/questions/516767/how-does-a-tachyonic-antitelephone-work
- www.physicsmatt.com/blog/2016/8/25/why-ftl-implies-time-travel shows the causality violation on a Spacetime diagram
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The speed of light in a vacuum is approximately **299,792,458 meters per second** (about **300,000 kilometers per second** or **186,282 miles per second**). This speed is considered a fundamental constant of nature and is denoted by the symbol **c**. It plays a crucial role in physics, particularly in the theory of relativity, and affects concepts such as time, space, and energy.