• grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      But it’s a laser. However fast it’s going, it’s going the speed of itself!

      “Ackchyually” indeed, LOL

    • knatschus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 months ago

      If you want to be pedantic, you got it the wrong way around light always travels at the speed of light. C only refers to the speed light reaches in a vacuum.

    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Does not make it “not the speed of light”, only not c. Also the laser would fire particles with the speed of c if fired in a vacuum.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I am being pedantic here, but if the laser travel at the same speed as c in a given medium, then it is going at the speed of light.

    • Bilbo@jlai.luEnglish
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      3 months ago

      If you really want to be pedantic, c is the notation for the “speed of light in a vacuum”, not just the “speed of light”, which depends on the medium.

      • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Which is what I was going for. But as flughoernchen already said, it can.

        Now we just have to bring that laser into space. Or shoot into outer space. An idea so cool, I’m disappointed I didn’t think of it.