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Originally Posted by HarryT
The idea that the speed of light is an absolute "maximum speed" is as close to certain as anything within modern physics. A century of rigorous experimentation has failed to find any flaw in the idea. The fact that you are "not surprised" by this experimental result astounds me. Do you have any concept of how rigorously special relativity has been experimentally tested?
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But of course Henry. Rigorously in some specific contest. Rigorously in your own words means as close to certain as anything. Then observables change and new contests are considered.
I am "not surprised" by this finding by itself no more than by any new finding. The difference here is that it involves what are considered and probably are fundamental ideas. So, are the consequences that give it importance, not the thing in itself.
I have educated my self to not take anything for granted.