Speed of light

Definition

The Speed of Light (or c) is the speed at which a photon (an "energy packet" of electromagnetic radiation) travels in a vacuum.

Values

The exact measurement for the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second, in the following values, the speed of light will use values based on the rounded 300,000,000 m/s.

Meters per second:

$c=3\times 10^{8}\mathrm {ms^{-1}}$

Kilometers per second:

$c=3\times 10^{5}\mathrm {kms^{-1}}$

Miles per second:

$c=1.9\times 10^{5}\mathrm {mis^{-1}}$

Consequences of the Speed of Light

You are going to have to sacrifice scale on some level.Either you will have an etmerxely huge sun, or a miniscule Mercury.You will also have quite a problem wiht the distance scale Here are the scales:Distances (in AU)Sun = 0Mercury = 0.39Venus = 0.72Earth = 1.00Mars = 1.52Jupiter = 5.20Saturn = 9.58Uranus = 19.23Neptune = 30.04Sizes (earth idameter)Me = 0.382V = 0.949E = 1.000Ma = 0.532J= 11.209S= 9.449U = 4.007N = 3.883So, you will need candy that will vary in size from 4/10 (in diameter) the size of whatever you use as the earth, to 11x larger.If you used an M&M for earth, picture putting 11 of them side by side for the equivalent of Jupiter and then think about cutting that M&M in half (actually a little less, closer to 1/3) for the size of Mercury.

See also

• The speed of light on Wikipedia