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This paper introduces no new physics. It is a declarative restatement of what standard relativity already says about "the speed of light," sorted into three cases. Plainly: Light has no speed. You have no speed. Speed is what other objects have as they pass you, and the fastest they can pass you is c. Technically: For the photon, the kinematic notion of speed is inapplicable, since the photon has null proper time, no rest frame, and no licensed intermediate spacetime history. For any massive object, the coordinate velocity in its own rest frame is zero. The invariant constant c bounds the relative velocity that any inertial observer may assign to another inertial frame from that observer's standpoint. No equations are altered. The Lorentz transformations remain. The metric structure of relativity remains. The operational role of c remains. The correction is interpretive: c is not the private speed of a photon traveler; it is the invariant causal and registration bound appearing in relativistic descriptions. The technical background is developed in prior papers in this series, including the minimal statement of the Timeless Light Model (10.5281/zenodo.19167403), the registration-bound restatement of c (10.5281/zenodo.20175517), the linguistic verdict on speed-talk for the null case (10.5281/zenodo.20193205), and the observational no-go on seeing a photon in flight (10.5281/zenodo.20225004). The present paper gives the plain declarative version.
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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0aad015ba8ef6d83b70688 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20225300