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my point: how do we know it’s not a description of how fast light suddenly goes on and off. If that wasn’t the case I would see it as an hyperbole, although the rebuttal being the word “literally”
There have been below SoL speeds depicted as, literally, flashes of light throughout fiction.
Anyways, what are your thoughts on the SoL proposal?
the “timeframe” being mentioned was just part of what I used to explain my pointSpeed is distance / time, so I don’t get why ‘literally the speed of a flash of light’ would refer to a timeframe.
my point: how do we know it’s not a description of how fast light suddenly goes on and off. If that wasn’t the case I would see it as an hyperbole, although the rebuttal being the word “literally”
There have been below SoL speeds depicted as, literally, flashes of light throughout fiction.
Anyways, what are your thoughts on the SoL proposal?