Speed of Light as the Mechanism of Maya: A First-Principles Bridge Between Relativistic Physics and Advaita Vedanta

This document presents an original chain of reasoning that identifies the finite speed of light (c) as the fundamental mechanism responsible for the phenomenological illusion described in Advaita Vedanta as "Maya." The argument proceeds from first principles of special relativity and quantum mechanics to establish that the finiteness of c is not merely a physical speed limit, but the singular constraint that generates the constructs of time, distance, causality, and observed reality. The removal or manipulation of this single parameter would collapse the entire phenomenological framework, rendering concepts such as past, present, future, death, gravity, and spatial distance meaningless — consistent with the Vedantic description of Brahman as the substratum beyond Maya.