Eli5: Why does light travel so fast?
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Fast relative to what?
Your perception?
Imagine we built an AI intelligence whose mind was powered by water flowing through tubes. By the time it could process a single thought about anything, this water would have had to have flowed an extremely long distance through its mind to generate that complex thought. When the AI saw water flowing outside of it’s mind, it would consider water flow to be extremely fast, as by the time it could even process anything that water would have had to have flowed at least the distance of all the folds of the tubes in its mind to do that.
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