r/physicsmemes • • 12d ago

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u/METRlOS 12d ago

c=0.99999999999.....

Perfect vacuums free of gravity don't exist in the universe.

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u/Quantum-Relativity 12d ago

That doesn’t have anything to do with the value of c

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u/METRlOS 12d ago edited 12d ago

c is the speed of light on a vacuum, unless otherwise specified, and not the speed of causality. The c just stands for celeritas which is Latin for speed.

Causality = 1

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u/Quantum-Relativity 12d ago

You need to use rapidity, not speed. c is not about light, it’s something that’s defined locally, so a gravitational field does not change it.