The Speed of Light as the Limit of World-Connectivity - Simulation, Time, and Ontological Irreversibility

In physics, the speed of light is regarded as the upper limit of signal transmission and as a fundamental constant of spacetime. This description is empirically correct and formally sufficient. The present text argues, however, that the speed of light also possesses an ontological significance that has so far remained largely unthematized.Starting from an ontology of irreversible world-binding, it is shown that the speed of light does not merely limit how fast information can be transmitted, but marks what can become world-connectable at all. Everything that can be transmitted necessarily appears as the trace of a world-enactment that has already occurred. Presence itself is in principle not transmissible.Simulations—particularly formal models, digital representations, and AI systems—implicitly operate as if this boundary could be lifted. They treat world as if it were fully reconstructible, synchronizable, or resettable. The text shows that simulation does not fail due to technical insufficiencies, but due to an ontological boundary: the non-retractability of world-binding, which is structurally secured by the speed of light.The speed of light thus appears not as a property of light alone, but as a condition of world-capability itself. The paper does not present itself as a critique of physics, but as an ontological contextualization of its scope—and as a clarification of why simulation necessarily remains worldless, even when it is formally correct.The argument proceeds by ontological reconstruction rather than physical derivation. This paper functions as an interface text within a larger operator-based research corpus. Core concepts are applied here, not re-derived. The underlying research operates in a non-linear, rhythmically recursive epistemic mode grounded in an autistic form of structural perception; the present text provides an interface translation for academic contexts.