Speed of light

Whenever i see a documentary on astronomy or special relativity, I end up writing something here. The general idea is mostly the same - Is speed of light a limiting factor in the laws of the universe? I always felt that the answer is no. How is it that the rules of the universe is limited by a speed which is less than a billionth of a billionth of the dimensions of the entire universe. It is as if saying that the laws on  earth are governed by the speed at which snail travels. Nothing on Earth can travel faster than snail! Reeeaally!!??

As i wrote sometime earlier, whenever humans come across a limit, we have found ways to get across it. During steam engine era, the power of the engine was proportional to its size. To get higher power, you HAD to increase the size of the engine. The size was the limiting factor, until there was a paradigm shift in the thinking. We realized that size is a limiting factor only for steam engine. But for internal combustion, size is no longer as big a limit.

Same was the case with the concept of time. The Newtonian laws could not conceive a framework where the time is variable. Time was always constant. It was a limiting factor for the Newtonian law. There was no way around it, until Einstein came along and brought with him another paradigm shift in the way we look at things. He proposed the idea of frame of reference. Within a given frame of reference, time could be constant. Once outside, you are no longer bound by the limitation of constant time. 

Now we are going thru the era where every Physicist talks about this limitation of the speed of light. I am waiting for that one person who will help us see the universe from a totally different perspective. A paradigm where speed of light is no longer constant and limiting factor. I hope it happens during my life time!