Stop with the "speed". How does the universe measure "speed"?
To us, speed equals something like miles per hour. time x distance. That is a human concept that we invented. But it doesn't apply to light. The universal constant. Light never slows down or speeds up. It is constant. The medium it travels through can affect its course, but it never gets slowed down or sped up. It is constant.
Light never travels at anything less than the constant.
For example, if you run light through a clear bucket of water, and it gets defracted, it doesn't go any slower when it comes out the other side. It never changed... the light coming out the other side doesn't suddenly "speed up" once it leaves the water... It's the same.
This is an interesting topic in Philosophy of Physics and Philosophy of Psychology.
Time & Relativity.
If you feel comfortable & motivated in explaining your views further about the "
constant speed of light", i'd be interested in seeing this discussion in its own thread.
EVERYTHING is
RELATIVE from the observer's perspective. The quanta of light (
photons) travel at a constant speed in a vacuum, but "slow down" when refracted or "captured" within some medium.
How do you explain these light quanta "speeding up" to their normal constant as measured from our perspective?
If
you are claiming photon particles never slow down in their wave spacetime dimension, then what perspective are you using, and how is it useful to your/our relative experiences & manipulation of "reality"?
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