What is the speed of light?
Question asked by: mrquestion
Asked on: 31 Mar 2008
The speed of light is the speed that light moves as it travels through the vacuum of space.
The speed of light is represented by c in equations and measured to have this value experimentally:
299,792,458 m/s where m/s means metres per second.
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