<![CDATA[Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?]]>Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light?

It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/15262cce-163b-4c29-91c1-c6facd2d5261/does-anyone-else-hate-the-speed-of-lightRSS for NodeThu, 13 Aug 2026 19:53:02 GMTSat, 08 Aug 2026 16:50:15 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:41:13 GMT]]>@aanee It's an observed fact that the speed of light is the same for everyone, no matter how they're moving. The only way to explain that observation is that the geometry of space and time is not what our everyday experience suggests. Instead of the Euclidean geometry of space alone that we learn in school, it's a Lorentzian geometry of space and time together, where it's *geometrically* impossible to go faster than the speed of light.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dgoldsmith/statuses/117063003217337434https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dgoldsmith/statuses/117063003217337434Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:41:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:21:10 GMT]]>@existentialcomics You're stuck on the material plane. If you go up a couple of dimensions, you can traverse the entire universe with ease.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stevenally/statuses/117062452538146596https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stevenally/statuses/117062452538146596Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:21:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:04:00 GMT]]>@existentialcomics
Hard coded magic number bullshit, am I right?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/dontreportme/statuses/117062385064672263https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/dontreportme/statuses/117062385064672263Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:04:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:04:38 GMT]]>@tanith @existentialcomics
1) It was a joke.
2) Of course you can't prove it's not a simulation. It's solipsism. You can't prove that the universe isn't a drug induced hallucination I'm having. You similarly can't prove that we're being fooled by superintellegent beinds and we're just brains in vats.
3) Because it is equivalent with those stupid theories, I think it's a stupid theory.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/ThreeSigma/statuses/117062151609778111https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/ThreeSigma/statuses/117062151609778111Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:04:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:51:20 GMT]]>@existentialcomics Yes!
I only travel with the speed of darkness ๐Ÿ˜‰

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fikaverse.club/users/lembritt/statuses/117062099324922795https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fikaverse.club/users/lembritt/statuses/117062099324922795Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:51:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:14:51 GMT]]>@existentialcomics The solution, of course, is hax.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/BaronessWinter/statuses/117061955838715858https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/BaronessWinter/statuses/117061955838715858Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:14:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:22:04 GMT]]>@existentialcomics I never understood the speed of light. Speed is always relative to something. So... how does that work on a galactic scale, with things moving towards each other?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/aanee/statuses/117061748294945290https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/aanee/statuses/117061748294945290Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:22:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:55:01 GMT]]>@existentialcomics fwiw I live in a city that has 300,000 restaurants. At three meals per day, it would take me 278 years.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/GyrosGeier/statuses/117061641926778502https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/GyrosGeier/statuses/117061641926778502Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:55:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:47:15 GMT]]>@pseudonym @existentialcomics
This.
I think of it as reality's way of avoiding the CAP theorem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/roytoo/statuses/117061375458072360https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/roytoo/statuses/117061375458072360Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:47:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:42:50 GMT]]>@existentialcomics even uncapped you'd need some hell of a shield (there was a recent kurzgesagt)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.uno/users/miniBill/statuses/117061358096536458https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.uno/users/miniBill/statuses/117061358096536458Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:42:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:45:04 GMT]]>@existentialcomics

Cut them some slack. Keeping the whole universe synchronised is tough. Distributed consistency is a hard problem.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/pseudonym/statuses/117061130971176173https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/pseudonym/statuses/117061130971176173Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:45:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:43:14 GMT]]>@existentialcomics I still think that the Alcubierre Drive does not violate causality. Currently mars is 16 light minutes away and say for shit and giggles your Warp drive can go 16 times as fast as light you still need 2 minutes for a round trip and at no point you traveled backwards in time.

Also thanks to Solitons and some funky math we apparently dont need exotic matter or negative energy for it to work and only prohibitive energy cost(1% of the suns mass per sec.) limit the practicality.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Benaresh/statuses/117061123754665754https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Benaresh/statuses/117061123754665754Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:43:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:36:19 GMT]]>@ThreeSigma @existentialcomics There can't ever be proof cause everything we know bout simulations n programming n such's based on how those work in this universe. For all we know it's really easy'a handle those sorta things in the real world but this universe's simulateda make't look hard. It's also a good counterargument for y the "human batteries wouldn't work cause conservation of energy" argument doesn't really work against the Matrix, cause physics within the Matrix could work differently than physics outside the Matrix (n given the Matrix's designed by machines who'd wanna do everything so humans believe it's not a simulation, it kinda makes sense they would be different, no?)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.artemislena.eu/users/tanith/statuses/01KZH74X95XN3GM4C8C647RAQQhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.artemislena.eu/users/tanith/statuses/01KZH74X95XN3GM4C8C647RAQQSat, 08 Aug 2026 17:36:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:33:13 GMT]]>@existentialcomics
I see it more as a pact with the devil: you can get everywhere instantly, but a lot of time would have passed for everyone else.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://todon.eu/users/NicholasLaney/statuses/117061084324444296https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://todon.eu/users/NicholasLaney/statuses/117061084324444296Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:33:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:30:47 GMT]]>@existentialcomics Relativity is proof we donโ€™t live in a simulation: no programmer would want to run a simulation where time ticks were not only nonuniform, but depended on speed and local energy density. Itโ€™s all race conditions.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/ThreeSigma/statuses/117061074780521933https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/ThreeSigma/statuses/117061074780521933Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:30:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:28:02 GMT]]>@existentialcomics honestly... i think it's the only thing keeping us out of harms reach.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/jon_ellis/statuses/117061063959861817https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/jon_ellis/statuses/117061063959861817Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:28:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:22:48 GMT]]>@matildalove @existentialcomics it's a balance patch, so you can't take future tech back and mess up causality

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/117061043402593313https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/117061043402593313Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:22:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:20:58 GMT]]>@existentialcomics You aren't even able to have a live conversation with someone in orbit without any delay because of that. Let alone control a Mars rover. Ugh.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.community/users/nasd1066/statuses/117061036191342722https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.community/users/nasd1066/statuses/117061036191342722Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:20:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:06:47 GMT]]>@existentialcomics Retrocausality is arriving in the next update.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mistersql/statuses/117060980432307018https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mistersql/statuses/117060980432307018Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:06:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:58:17 GMT]]>@matildalove @existentialcomics

Going faster than light causes a stack underflow, which is the first step towards getting ACE for the universe

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://retro.pizza/users/thevhswizard/statuses/117060946953968466https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://retro.pizza/users/thevhswizard/statuses/117060946953968466Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:58:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:53:51 GMT]]>@existentialcomics

> arbitrarily

You think so? Nope. It's a containment measure to avoid the spread of nuisance species until a suitable response can be developed.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/glitzersachen/statuses/117060929561240172https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/glitzersachen/statuses/117060929561240172Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:53:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:53:11 GMT]]>@existentialcomics i mean they did put in the time dilation hack so you technically can, in your own time experience, but then it's fuckin 4058 CE or some shit when you try to go back home

what a fucking kludge

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wetdry.world/users/matildalove/statuses/117060926907764687https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wetdry.world/users/matildalove/statuses/117060926907764687Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:53:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:52:21 GMT]]>@existentialcomics It is very rude.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.acc.sunet.se/users/maswan/statuses/117060923663420781https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.acc.sunet.se/users/maswan/statuses/117060923663420781Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:52:21 GMT