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The Speed of Light Is a Finite.

The speed of light is finite. It's around 300 million metres a second, hundred 86 thousand miles per second. If you were a traveller moving at the speed of light and you circumnavigated the equator, you could circumnavigate it seven and a half times in one second,. But it wasn't always thought to be finite. So so people thought it was infinite for for centuries and centuries. The greek philosopher aristotle didn't actually ever do any measurements or experiments. He just took it to be m instantaneous, and therefore it was, it was infinite. People started to think it's not infinite. And by measuring that light, you'd be able to measure the

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