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What is a speed of light?

What is a speed of light? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) The speed of electromagnetic radiation in a perfect vacuum: exactly 299,792,458 metres per second by definition.
  2. (colloquial, figuratively) A very rapid speed.
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Albert Einstein theorized that the speed of gravity was around the speed of light, but no one proved it until now.
What would happen if the escape velocity of a planet were greater than the speed of light?
That is, an infinite amount of energy would have to be expended, via the accelerating force, to reach the speed of light.
The intense X rays from a solar flare travel to Earth at the speed of light, giving space weather watchers little time to react.
What little we know about this new subject consists of a few broad limitations such as the finiteness of the speed of light.
The emitted beta particle travels through air at close to the speed of light.

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