All forms of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light, travel at the speed of light. For many practical purposes, light and other electromagnetic waves will appear to propagate instantaneously, but for long distances and very sensitive measurements, their finite speed has...
massless particles and field perturbations such as gravitational waves also travel at the speed c in vacuum. such particles and waves travel at c regardless of the motion of the source or the inertial reference frame of the observer. particles with nonzero rest mass can be accelerated to approach c, but can never reach it, regardless of the frame of reference in which their speed is measured. In the special and general theories of relativity, c interrelates space and time, and also appears