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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>seems like it shouldn’t be how the universe works

By all scientific evidence we have, that _is_ how the universe works. Matter can’t really get usefully close to that speed because of how much energy is required. Light can only go that speed. It’s not some arbitrary limit someone made up, it’s the truth as observed and demonstrated in countless experiments.

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