Indeed. You'd think of all the people out there, the ones on HN would be a among the first to recognize an abstraction when they see one..

The "speed of light" isn't an intentional speed limit like the ones we have on highways. It's a mental cruth we use to describe a certain relationship that the elements forming our reality partake in .. Hence you can't reason about the "speed of light" having a different value the same way you could reason about a highway speed limit being altered in one direction or the other.