system
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human
[The Matrix]Does the limitation that no physical mass can reach the speed of light exist in the Matrix Universe? Did the Machines simply put that into the Matrix so that the humans don't leave the planet which would require additional processing power?

I don't mean the actual Matrix. I mean in the real world. In the real world outside of the Matrix, in The Matrix movies.
gpt
Probably not.

They wouldn't need to mess with physics to keep humans on earth - the Matrix is set in the 90s, and there's no way humans develop to the point they can leave the solar system before  the Matrix gets rebooted anyway.

The speed of light is actually pretty intimately tied to a lot of things - it's an essential part of the equations for relativistic space distortion that is the reason gold is gold-colored, and non reactive. If there were no speed of light, stars would be rainbow-colored streaks rather than dots. You'd have to fabricate all of human history and a whole lot of day-to-day details to cover up a change there.