Thread: why are photons limited to "light speed"
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Old 24-July-2008, 12:57 PM
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Because then you would ask why the speed limit was 400,000los
I thought the answer to "why" is "because". Science creates models to explain actions, not to answer "why". There are a whole list of parameters that we do not know "why". My favorite is the Fine Structure constant; 1/137 + a little bit; "why",we do not know.
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