What is special about the speed of light? Why isnt it faster or slower?

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I sort of get the idea of how nothing can go faster than the speed of light but it always bugged me in the back of my mind and seems like it shouldn’t be how the universe works

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A light particle traveling at the speed of light does not experiance time. It arrives at it’s final destintion at the exact moment it is created by whatever creates it (from the frame of reference of the photon itself). To the light photon, time does not exist, so therefore how can it have speed?

We on the other hand do experiance time, see a lag between creation of the photon and it’s arrival at it’s destination. Time is an illusion created by <insert Nobel Prize winning thesis here>.

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