Question

If the speed of light is the average speed at which photons travel, which speed is the “true” constant speed of light?

Answer 1

But suppose that the average speed is c and that the faster photons travel at c+Δc and the slower ones at c-Δc. According to Special Relativity, the speed of light should be constant to all observers, but as seen here, there's slight (but not negligible) variations in the photon speeds.

Answer 2

Explanation:

The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is 299792458 metres per second (approximately 300000 km/s (186000 mi/s)[Note 3]). It is exact because by international agreement a metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1⁄299792458 second.[Note 4][3] According to special relativity, c is the upper limit for the speed at which conventional matter and information can travel. Though this speed is most commonly associated with light, it is also the speed at which all massless particles and field perturbations travel in vacuum, including electromagnetic radiation and gravitational waves. Such particles and waves travel at c regardless of the motion of the source or the inertial reference frame of the observer. Particles with nonzero rest mass can approach c, but can never actually reach it. In the special and general theories of relativity, c interrelates space and time, and also appears in the famous equation of mass–energy equivalence E = mc2.[4]