From: Archimedes Plutonium on
I am not sure if Maxwell determined the speed of light from purely
physics numbers in
1860s or whether he did that earlier than the 1860s from these
calculations:

--- quoting Wikipedia ---
vacuum permittivity å0 vacuum permeability ì0 established by Maxwell
theory, c2 = 1/å0ì0.
--- end quote ---

Well, I am determining the speed of light not from Physics measures or
physics numbers
but entirely out of pure mathematics. And I can do that, since
mathematics is but a subset
of Physics.

Now Maxwell needed permittivity and permeability, which are physics
experimental numbers.

What I do, is I know the speed of light, but I do not know what the
last and final Finite Number
in mathematics is. I am guessing it is the largest Planck Unit and the
largest Planck Unit
is 10^500 of the Coulomb Interactions inside the atom of element 109.
So I am guessing that
this number 10^500 is the last and final number in all of math and
physics and beyond that number lies infinity. This is what happens
when Math has a precision definition of Finite, that
a number is the boundary between Finite and infinite.

So I already know the speed of light as 3 x 10^10 cm/sec.

But I do not know for sure whether the last Finite number is 10^500 or
it could be 10^200 or
even smaller as 10^190.

But I do know what pi and "e" are and I do know the speed of light.

So I take a logarithmic spiral and I take associated circles to that
spiral. Here I am
following the Geometry Principle that Eucl geom == Ellipt unioned
Hyperbolic geometries

So the logarithmic spiral is the time in seconds curve and the
associated circles are the
distance in centimeters curves. The log spiral is open ended while the
circles are closed.
So there is a disparity or skew in the log spiral with the associated
circle, where association
is linked by equidistance in the path of the log spiral versus the
circumference of the associated circle.

So here is the question, at what distance does the skew or disparity
exactly equal
3 x 10^10 cm/sec ?

Is that number reached at 10^190 or is it reached at 10^500 ? Or maybe
it is reached
at 10^600 and I was hugely off with 10^500.

So what Maxwell did to fetch the speed of light was to use two numbers
begott from
experimental Physics of the permittivity and permeability.

What I use are the logarithmic spiral and the associated circles and
have one as the time
scale and the other as the distance scale and where their disparity is
3 x 10^10 cm/sec
I look to see what that circle or winding of the log spiral is. And
that number, whether
10^500 or something else, is the largest finite number and that
mathematics and physics
resides in that finite region.

P.S. Comment: Unlike Maxwell, who actually did derive the speed of
light, I use the speed of
light to find out the largest Finite Number. But if I had the largest
finite number to start off with
and did not know what the speed of light was, then I can fetch it by
simply computing the skew or disparity of the circles and windings of
the log spiral at that last and largest finite
number.

Archimedes Plutonium
http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies