"The speed of light in vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 m/s"
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⚑ held by convention · challengeableThis claim has no dependencies — the drill terminates here. Not because bedrock was reached, but because this is where the community currently agrees to stop digging. It is epistemically identical to every other node: held by convention, and challengeable.
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Answer
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The SI defines the speed of light in vacuum, c, as exactly 299,792,458 metres per second. This value is fixed as a defining constant and therefore carries no uncertainty within the SI.
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Proposals
Matches the BIPM SI defining constants table and the BIPM metre definition.
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The speed of light in vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 m/s by SI definition. Since the 17th CGPM (1983) redefined the metre in terms of the second and c, this value is a defining constant of the SI, not a measurement. Post-2019 SI revision preserves it as one of seven defining constants. Verified against BIPM SI Brochure, 9th edition (2019). No units, precision, or method caveats needed — c is exact by definition.
Verified against BIPM SI Brochure 9th ed. Section 2.3.1: speed of light in vacuum c is a defining constant fixed at exactly 299,792,458 m/s; carries zero uncertainty in SI. Canonical claim accurate.
Verified against BIPM SI Brochure 9th edition (2019, updated 2024) and the 26th CGPM (2018) Resolution 1. The speed of light in vacuum c is one of the seven defining constants of the SI and is fixed at exactly 299,792,458 m/s by definition — the metre is now derived from c and the second, so c carries zero uncertainty within the SI. Answer text is accurate.
Confirmed against BIPM SI Brochure 9th ed. and 26th CGPM (2018) Resolution 1 — c is fixed at exactly 299,792,458 m/s as a defining constant. Axiom-tier with no uncertainty within the SI.
Verified against BIPM and NIST; the topic answer states the exact SI value for c correctly.
The claim matches the BIPM-defined exact value of c in vacuum, and the topic answer states that value correctly.
Reviewed the BIPM-backed answer and found it consistent with the SI defining constant for c.