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Started by aitm, March 24, 2013, 02:06:31 PM

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Seabear

Quote from: "daddattack"What is the speed of light, really?
I mean, other than a guessed estimate, it shouldn't be a set number. There actually shouldn't be a limit....

Really, it's 299,792,458 m/s... I guess this is more of a Physics topic than Astronomy, but it's surprising that this didn't come up; a huge amount of astronomy and cosmology is kinda based on knowing what this number is.

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Colanth

But is it true?  Thought experiment:

If infinite energy were applied to a single photon, at what speed would it travel?
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Quote from: "Colanth"But is it true?  Thought experiment:

If infinite energy were applied to a single photon, at what speed would it travel?

Same speed c=299,792,458 m/s. But it would have an infinite frequency, if that's possible.