The Informational Nature of Constant 𝑐: Vacuum Computational Bandwidth Limi

The speed of light 𝑐, long postulated as an unexplained fundamental constant with the precise experimental value 𝑐 = 299, 792, 458 m/s, emerges naturally as the maximum computational bandwidth of vacuum when treated as a distributed quantum information processing network. Through a novel thought experiment conceptualizing vacuum as a substrate with finite bit-density (𝜀0), node connectivity (𝛼 = 1/137), and thermodynamic processing costs (𝑘𝐵𝑇𝑃 ln 2), we derive the exact CODATA value from first principles.