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C (light speed)

The invariable and unsurpassable speed limit for all physical signals. In vacuum electromagnetic waves (and, therefore, photons) travel at light speed. The value of this physical constant, denoted c (for celerity), was set at 299,792,458 km/s in 1983.

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