partyonmoon
I have a good one.
Why is light speed considered instanious when it really isn't?
I feel like typing. *waves hands in the air* As somebody said already, it isn't. Within a vacuum, meaning there is no matter at all such as air or anything, light travels at a
fixed speed of 299,792,458 meters per second or 670,616,629.384 miles per hour. When it travels through matter such gases, liquids, and solids, it is slowed down.
By saying that the speed of light is fixed, that means no matter what speed you are traveling
relative to say a particle of light - a photon - assuming this is a vaccumed system as without that things get a bit more complicated, it will always be traveling at the speed noted above. You could never under any circumstances theoretically catch up to a beam of light traveling 300 million meters per second. As you'd speed up, time around you would slow down, but not for the light particle as it zips away. Time would be going slower for you and faster for the photon.