Why is the speed of light so damm slow?
300k km/s is basically fucking nothing.
Well I know there is no answer to that, but why do we pretend light goes fast? It doesn't

>>16718969 (OP)
There's literally no "slow" or "fast" for light. There's the speed of light and everything else is compared to it. It sets the scale for spacetime metric.

>>16718979
we compare things based on our perception and our experience
the universe is vast, we know this
it takes light millions of years to reach places
therefore compared to the scale of the universe the speed of light is slow

>>16718990
>we compare things based on our perception and our experience
Yes, and our experience (ie experimental evidence) tells us that the speed of light is a fundamental invariant of nature. There is no other such invariant with the units of speed we know of. So the speed of light is the yardstick that everything else is compared to.

>>16718969 (OP)
I mean, it's pretty fast compared to the speed of light.

It is a hokey poke speed

>>16718969 (OP)
Its the law of Cuntology, which simply states that "No matter where you go, no matter what you do, there is always some asshole who fucks things up for you"
In this case some asshole, probably a Communist, made light only travel at a piddling 300k km/s. If it were not for that asshole then light would travel infinitely fast and arrive instantaneously everywhere all at the same time.
I hope that explains it for you.
But now I would pose the question. Why did the asshole choose 300k km/s rather than some higher or lower value? Like why the fuck shouldn't the speed of light be say 400k km/s? Or just 200k km/s?
I mean really if the asshole really wanted to be an asshole he would have made light travel slower than the speed of sound. That way you would never be able to duck a brick being thrown at your head. That's what I would have done. That would have been a much bigger asshole thing to do. But he didn't. What a loser. What an asshole.

>>16718990
>it takes light millions of years to reach places
>therefore compared to the scale of the universe the speed of light is slow
Because the universe is really fucking old. It's literally the oldest thing we know of.
The biggest too.

>>16719082
maybe it's actually really small... ever think of that?

>>16719090
It's bigger than anything I ever seen.

>>16719107
Not bigger than your mother.

>>16719079
It's fundamentally impossible for light to travel slower than sound.
But you are right, whoever decided that 300k km/s was the way to go was a cunt.
The very least they could do was to make it 300M km/s so at least we could get fast computers

>>16719181
>fundamentally impossible for light to travel slower than sound
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

>>16718969 (OP)
The speed of light is a given constant and it is the only given constant. All other speeds are relative to it. All other speeds are slower than or equal to it. Hence per definition the speed of light is 'the fastest'. All other speeds are 'slower'. There is no extreme fundamental constant distance or time that we know of (quantum fags prove it or shut it). As such 'slow' and 'fast' are arbitary and relative.
>OP is a faggot

>>16718990
>it takes light millions of years to reach places
>therefore compared to the scale of the universe the speed of light is slow
No, it just means that million of years is a small amount of time. Did you know that Earth is 4.5 billion years old?

>>16718969 (OP)
The Creator of the universe didn't want us communicating or interfering with lifeforms in other star systems

>>16718990
>millions of years
Is that a long or a short time?

>>16719552
*facepalms*

What#s the duration of a lighyear

>>16718969 (OP)
light isn't slow, you age too fast

>>16719405
We don't know that it's constant or even the speed in all directions

>>16719773
How can we fix humans?

>>16718990
>it takes light millions of years to reach places
TO YOU. From the photon's perspective, it takes no time at all.

>>16719729

>>16719999
Please demonstrate how much of a stupid cunt you are somewhere else.

>>16718969 (OP)
Light isn't slow, the universe is just absurdly fucking big. There are more galactic superclusters in the universe than there are people on earth. It's fucking terrifying

>>16720344
>holy shit the universe is so big im so scared woooo
normie faggot turd nobody cares how large uranus is you still gotta pay taxes and runt

>>16720400
Your entire life, the entire life of your 100 direct ancestors, and the entire lives of your next 100 descendants (if you have any (big if)) are a rounding error in the age of the universe

>>16718969 (OP)
>but why do we pretend light goes fast? It doesn't
You got something faster?

>>16719999
Photons don't actually exist. A "photon" is just what we call energy when its disappeared from one atom and hasn't reappeared anywhere else yet.
A photon is just as much a mathematical abstraction as dark matter.

>>16720448
To expand on that: A photon is when an atom in a star loses a "chunk" of energy. A year later, an atom a lightyear away gains a "chunk" of energy.
We call this a photon during the year while its missing simply to balance the books. There is nothing traveling nor is there some ball of light you could start searching for.

300k km/s is the speed limit of the universe retard
nothing can go faster than that and can never reach it except light itself

>>16721061
Many things that aren't light can reach the speed of light

>>16721062
Only particles that have no mass, like photons can travel at the speed of light

>>16721071
There are massless particles that aren't light. Gravity also travels at the speed of light and it's not yet clear if gravity has a particle at all