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Comment by JdeBP

It's difficult to say that it has any given number, since our measurement units for both time and space are derived from it (via a short detour to the size of Terra, in the 18th century). It can have any finite number you like, just adjust the metre and second to match.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGxXyqlhbU (FloatHeadPhysics on this)

One physics convention just sets its value to 1. All of those Minkowsky diagrams that we see are measured in light seconds on the space axis, in order to make c have the value of 1 space unit per time unit; so all of the graphical sheep, spaceships, cats, people, torches and stuff that are placed upon them are very much not to scale. (-:

parent JdeBP 2 years ago

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