Why does light travel so slow?

[physicsnoob12]

although compared to us light travel super fast if you take a step back one will see that copared to the gigantic universe light travels very slow. can there be any thing that travels faster than light?

 

[Pengwuino]

Nothing in currently accepted theories can travel faster than the speed of light. Also, whether or not something travels slowly shouldn't really be gauged on the size of what it travels through. You're comparing a moving object with, in a sense, static objects

 

[russ_watters]

Irony relocated to gd: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=458776

 

[rbj]

Irony relocated to gd: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=458776

so what lesson(s) can be drawn from this?

 

[Char. Limit]

so what lesson(s) can be drawn from this?

Have you tried logarithms?

 

[dydxforsn]

I've always thought that the finite velocity of light implies that we sort of lack complete knowledge of the exact nature of the vacuum. This is because the question really is why do the electric and magnetic field constants take on the values that they do.Is everyone scoffing at the topic (I realize there are two of them though.. which is funny), because it is sometimes these questions that yield the greatest results... :/

 

[vish_al210]

Slow or fast is actually the outcome of a comparison to something else as reference. So to say something is slow, there should be something faster. So until we find something faster than light we would not be in a position to say.. "Light is slow"... Coz until then everything else is slower than light and hence light is faster than anything else... at times faster than itself.. depending on the medium...
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