# How to have light move faster than C

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 24, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-have-light-move-faster-than-c/682160 "2014-02-24T21:53:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-have-light-move-faster-than-c/682160/802 "2014-03-17T18:50:34Z")

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> [@Reyemile](#):
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> Copy-pasted that last one into Wolfram Alpha and got an answer within 30 seconds 🙂

Fuck you. Fuck you and everything about that site. 😃

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**Author:** ![Itself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Itself)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-have-light-move-faster-than-c/682160/803 "2014-03-17T22:34:13Z")

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> [@Reyemile](#):
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> Copy-pasted that last one into Wolfram Alpha and got an answer within 30 seconds 🙂

Even then, that’s not really what math is. It’s not about computation, and it’s certainly not about something like arithmetic for which there’s a very standard and reasonable algorithm already.

But this might be too serious a discussion for a thread started because someone claimed that rotating mirrors disprove relativity and no one else realizes it because they worship Einstein as a god, and also you can totally be a physicist without knowing or doing any physics.

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