of 186,000 miles per second for light was considered absurd by many. it's still a strange concept. if someone throws a baseball to you at ten miles per hour, while standing on a moving sidewalk that is also moving at ten miles per hour towards you, you'd expect the ball to hit at twenty miles per hour, and you'd be right. given how fast objects in space move, the speed limit of light would be like having someone sit on the wing of a jet coming at you at seven hundred miles per hour, and throwing you a baseball which hits you at twenty miles per hour because that's just 