Reply #210: Wiki isn't a trustworthy source of info, nor is it a textbook.

[darkstar3]

Furthermore, the oversimplification of the behavior of light is taken as a necessary assumption to introduce students to physics. As you progress beyond the first semester of high school physics, the complex nature of light is revisited again and again, slowly revealing the intricate workings of the particle/wave phenomenon as your comprehension of the subject grows.

No textbooks NEED to be rewritten. They're fine as they are, if you bother to read them. Not that it matters. You admitted above that light is not a universal constant, so you obviously found the correct information somewhere, and it contradicts your original claims about light needing to be apart from this universe.

So, do you have some other explanation as to why you think light must have a "mysterious arbitrary, absolute, "stand alone" nature"?