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I can whistle at the speed of sound (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

uh ackchuyally it's not the speed of light

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uhm ackshully it is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

~~it’s not. Light only travels at c in a vacuum.~~

Looks like I am light years away from joining the ackchyually club.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you really want to be pedantic, c is the notation for the "speed of light in a vacuum", not just the "speed of light", which depends on the medium.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Which is what I was going for. But as flughoernchen already said, it can.

Now we just have to bring that laser into space. Or shoot into outer space. An idea so cool, I’m disappointed I didn’t think of it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But it's a laser. However fast it's going, it's going the speed of itself!

"Ackchyually" indeed, LOL

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Does not make it "not the speed of light", only not c. Also the laser would fire particles with the speed of c if fired in a vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Headline says that it can fire at the speed of light though not that it does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

…point taken.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am being pedantic here, but if the laser travel at the same speed as c in a given medium, then it is going at the speed of light.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Somebody failed their pedantry 101