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Null Propagation as the Causal-Limit Invariant: Why the Speed of Light Is a Metric Representative

Amos Jay Maley

This paper argues that the speed of light is not a fundamental physical quantity, despite its central role in modern physics and its exact numerical fixation in contemporary unit systems. The core claim is structural rather than empirical: the notion of speed presupposes metric structure and unit conventions, whereas the invariant physical content of relativity is carried by null causal structure , not by a numerical constant. The analysis introduces a clear criterion for fundamentality based on invariance under...

All-version DOI
10.5281/zenodo.18582766
Archive page
https://constraintsystemsinstitute.org/papers/null-propagation-as-the-causal-limit-invariant-why-the-speed-of-light-is-a-metric-repr/
Report number
CSI-ZENODO-18582766
Publication date
2026/05/21
Source record
https://zenodo.org/records/20322687