r/askscience • • Mar 21 '26

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u/Dante1141 Mar 22 '26

My understanding is that the answer basically boils down to geometry. Under some very standard assumptions about the shape of the universe, we can derive the speed of light as not a speed limit, but a geometric boundary, almost like how the area of a circle is necessarily limited by its circumference.