Re: Why Is the Speed of Light Exactly C and Not Some Other Value?


Traveler wrote:
Why is the speed of light exactly c and not some other value?
Bilge wrote:
Why is \pi exactly \pi and not some other value?

Two very good questions from two who appear to be trolls :-)

So I'm going to make perhaps a feeble attempt at a first approximation and
if it doesn't get to boringly abusive we might just get at least a bit
nearer an answer.

pi seems to boil down to a ratio of curve to straight but if at a microfine
level all was straight then pi would be 3 so how has pi got to 3.14 etc.
If you build a matrix of tetrahedrons build out of charge pairs that vibrate
about there centers so each edge/face was in a transient state of curve that
conformes to pi = 3.14 etc the thing defining pi becomes the amplitude of
the vibrating shape and also the propagation rate of the current state of
the cosmos.
Just some thoughts.:-)
Second thought:-)
If the potential for velocity was infinite then what would restrict anything
to a lower speed. It must be a characteristic of the medium the event is
travelling in and the relationship of the event to the medium. In the case
of particles if you assume that they are constructs of the medium then it
would appear that there involvement/effect on the medium is more significant
than a travelling electric field so to propagate a field a less significant
effort is needed so as somebody has already said the permittivity of free
space e0 defines c but what defines e0. It might be possible to explain it
as the state of the part of unity in which our cosmos currently existes, see
pi.
Best I can do on that one at the moment.:-)
Dr ***



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