299 792 458 m / s
Why is it that speed?
The speed of Light
Nolan Nelson
Jayden Bennett
It has to be *some* speed.
Juan Sanders
because seconds are arbitrary
Aaron Reyes
That's just how God made it.
Ryan Anderson
Because it can't be infinite. The entire universe might scale based on that speed.
Nicholas Thompson
Because mu naught epsilon naught
Something something
electromagnetic waves in a vacuum
Christian White
Isaiah Price
Oh I know!
...Wait...
Damn, already hit reply.
Oh well... Actually, I think this is one of those fundamental things we don't fully understand, but I hit reply as I recalled having it explained to me as part of the nature of quantum vacuum permeability, but now I'm brain farting and I can't seem to find anything related, save this snippet:
en.wikipedia.org
Only other possibly useful information I might bring up, is that the speed of light isn't dictated by the speed of light - all massless particles travel at the speed of light. Rather, it's the maximum speed of information propagation in the universe. Any information traveling faster results in a casual violation - not that relativity can't already result in events happening out of order to different observers, nor that even quantum physics doesn't allow for some forms of causal violation. ...but in the end, with the exception some extreme and some theoretical phenomenon, the speed of information propagation remains the same.
Ayden Sanders
Why is pi 3.14XXXXXX......
constants were put there by something or you can be a godless heathen and believe it just randomly happened
Isaiah Foster
I think we all know how to derive pi.
I don't think we all know how to derive the speed of light.
Though like the vid says, , I suppose there maybe some way involving Lorentz transformations and Maxwell equations. Sadly, above my pay grade.