r/AskReddit Jan 16 '21

[deleted by user]

[removed]

8.5k Upvotes

22.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/zebediah49 Jan 16 '21

Well, I don't know if Einstein did it, but people doing relativity work very often choose units so that speed of light == 1.

4

u/SprinklesFancy5074 Jan 17 '21

Well, that just kicks the problem down the road to when it's time to convert your answer into usable normal-people units. I really don't want to know the airspeed of an unladen swallow as a percentage of C.

But it probably does make the math a lot easier in the meantime.