MEASURING THE
SPEED OF LIGHT
OLE RØMER (1644–1710)
"For the distance of
about 3,000 leagues,
which is nearly equal
to the diameter of the
Earth, light needs not
one second of time"
THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS=
299 792 458 m / s
《 The speed of
light can be
calculated from the
time differences
and distances in the
solar system
》
The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constantimportant in many areas of physics. Its exact value is 299,792,458 metres per second(approximately 300,000 km/s (186,000 mi/s)[Note 3]). It is exact because by international agreement a metre is defined to be the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 second.[Note 4][3] According to special relativity, c is the maximum speed at which all conventional matter and hence all known forms of information in the universecan travel. Though this speed is most commonly associated with light, it is in fact the speed at which all massless particles and changes of the associated fields travel in vacuum
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