How Does Entropy Affect the Speed of Light?

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I think entropy is probably the friction which prevents anything travelling faster than 186,000 m/sec.

Imagine we exist only in 2 dimensions, like Flatland, and a photon (or a spaceship) is a matchbox car. You can push it across the kitchen floor and it goes really fast all the way across the room, but now go into the living room- put it on the carpet it can’t go as fast or as far.

Now to imagine travel in the fourth dimension this way: you pick the car off the carpet (thus escaping entropy), walk across the room and put it down. To a person living on the carpet that is our spacetime continuum the matchbox car just disappeared and reappeared an impossibly far distance away, seemingly travelling faster than light.