The speed of light in vacuum, often called simply speed of light and commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 1 billion kilometres รขโ‚ฌยฆ In fact, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. By comparison, sound travels just 340 m in one second, about the length of three and a half hockey pitches.

A traveler, moving at the speed of light, would circum-navigate the equator approximately 7. 5 times in one second.