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Oldfart
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Rap said:Well, I don't mean to duck the question, I'm trying to explain why its a bad question, and not doing to well, I admit. The short answer is yes, its fundamentally impossible. As a number, the speed of light is not a "god number", because its numerical value depends on your chosen unit of length and your chosen unit of time. .
Rap, perhaps we remain disconnected because of my misuse of the term "god number." I have no interest in defending or defining a particular "numerical value" for c,
Lets go back a few thousand years, Zog the caveman, who has no notion of meters or seconds, cleverly observes that light is very fast and wonders if someday science will be able to explain why it goes at the fastness that it does. What do you tell him?