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What are the ranges for the speed of light?

Asked by RedDeerGuy1 (24959points) April 16th, 2022

From a vaccum and other mediums? What is the maximum speed and minimum speed? Would that be interesting to view?

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Hawaii_Jake's avatar

Someone who knows for sure will certainly answer.

I’m fairly certain it’s a constant. It’s used to gage all sorts of other things.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Constant but I’ll deferred to @Caravavfan.

Caravanfan's avatar

Maximum speed is c in vacuum. Minimum speed technically is zero or close to zero in mediums such as a Bose-Einstein condensate.

LostInParadise's avatar

According to this article, light has been slowed down to 38 mph (about 61 km/hr).

Caravanfan's avatar

@LostInParadise Yes, that’s the Bose-Einstein condensate that I mentioned. Good find.

flutherother's avatar

Light slows by 25% when travelling through water. Mediums such as air or glass slow it by similar amounts.

filmfann's avatar

Fascinating.
In deep space, space is not a vacuum, which may mean our measurements of the distance to some stars may be way off.

WhyNow's avatar

@filmfann Your real name is Spock!

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