omniaddict wrote:I've pointed out before that since the laser is made of light, it travels at the speed of light. We know that the range of the laser beam in the game is 60 Light seconds, so it whould take the beam 60 seconds to travel that far. Since it doesn't, we can assume that the game is played at a faster than normal time frame. That is, if the laser takes 2 seconds in the game to travel 60 LS, then we can guess that 1 real life second represents 30 seconds in the game (and in fact there is a variable in the xml code that governs this).
Start Transcendence.
Find a planet, have a laser equipped on your ship.
Measure the planet.
Shoot the laser across the length of the planet.
Measure the time it takes for the beam to travel from one point to the other.
I have done this profound experiment. Ha! The speed of light (or any electromagnetic radiation) in real life is 299,792,458 meters per second.
I found a planet in Transcendence. A big one. By lucky chance it turned out this planet was precisely 299,792,458 meters across.*
I fired my laser, and timed it. It took exactly one second for the laser beam to travel the length!
The speed of light in Transcendence is 100% totally accurate.
Moo hoo ha ha!
* For scale... Jupiters diameter is approx 142,800,000 meters. Earths Sun's diameter is 1,380,000,000 meters.
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