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10157177 No.10157177 [Reply] [Original]

Why is the speed of light what it is? Why not faster or slower? There much be some mechanism government the speed of light.

>> No.10157206

>>10157177
Maxwells equations

>> No.10157216
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>>10157177
Space has something like density and compressibility that defines the speed of light.

[math] \displaystyle
c = \frac{1}{ \sqrt{ \varepsilon_0 \mu_0}}
[/math]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.0070
A quaternionic unification of electromagnetism and hydrodynamics
page 7

>> No.10157306

>>10157216

English please

>> No.10157312

>>10157306
See >>10157206

>> No.10157348

>>10157306
God made it so

>> No.10157361

>>10157306
Lrn2english fgt pls

>> No.10157471

>>10157216
Oh it's the pseudocunt again

>> No.10157646

>>10157206
Maxwell's equations only describe its behaviour, they don't govern it.

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10157750

>>10157177
Nothing, absolutely nothing, will ever tell you why things in our physical world are the way they are.

All you can do is describe them. And the closest answer you’ll get really is >>10157206

Sure, maybe other things may help explain but you’ll never get a why.

Though it may be important to not that units are man made. We arbitrarily decided what units to use which in turn affect what our physical constants will be. If the meter was shorter than it currently is light would be “faster” than it is now

>> No.10157754

>>10157216
Also holy shit that’s cool desu

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FIrst, imagine the world if the speed of light will change (that will be the mess everywere, the world will be not exist)
Sooooo, the speed of light can't change because /b/ create the world like this

>> No.10158687

>>10157216
This actually does not sound retarded at all. I have read a few places that you can structure the quantum vacuum so that light propogates faster than c. I think I read a DoD symposium put on by the ARL called "Empty Space: The Multi-layered, multi-flavored superconductor"