August 28, 2023
The current definition of the speed of light in a vacuum, 299,792.458 kilometers per second, was declared by a group of scientists in 1983. In 1728 English physician James Bradley used the apparent movement of stars to calculate the speed of light at 295,000 km/s—not bad for someone using just a telescope, pen, and paper.
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