[equalator]

[cripplecreek]

They’ve been able to slow light down in lab tests for a few years now.

[Jyotishi]

Hussein’s halo is going dark.

[smokingfrog]

It slows down considerably when it hits 0bama’s skull.

[bigheadfred]

Thanks for the article now I get to go read on Mach’s Principle and compare it with this.

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511038

[TheZMan]

Shocker (not). I’m also figuring it’s a matter of time (possibly soon, considering this post) before they figure out that light isn’t actually the speed limit, light has “mass”, and that dark matter/energy doesn’t exist because it isn’t needed to satisfy their observations.

Addressing the universe mathematically will teach you an awful lot, but it doesn’t solve everything. I believe it’s a “forest for the trees” problem.

Of course, to a mathematician I’m an unqualified boob - but it’s not the first time I’ve sat back and said “well duh” at one of these “discoveries”.

[onedoug]

M-Theory

[James C. Bennett]

Refraction, like in a prism, is due to light slowing down in speed as it enters the prism medium.

[driftdiver]

I distinctly remember being taught the speed of light varied with the density of the material it was going through.

Light is photons right?

If you can stop it then it seems to me that the speed of those photons changed.

[EternalVigilance]

I’ve been saying this for years, almost always to the great derision of the scientific types. If it was that important to me I could probably go back and find the FR threads.

[Kevmo]

Pinging my favorite cosmologists. In the past, we have had some discussions where I posited that the speed of light is not really a constant.

[Last Dakotan]

It goes really slowly through a right hand turn.

So slowly that you risk ramming it from behind.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Bump

[The Cajun]

BOOKMARK.

[preacher]

Speed Limit: 186,000 miles per second
It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.

[Yellowstone Joe]

Which begs the question. Is the universe really as d as we have been told?

[Yellowstone Joe]

Which begs the question. Is the universe really as old as we have been told?

[The Cajun]

Still think there are certain regions in space, not talking about in the vicinity of a large gravitational field (Blackhole), where
space/time and therefore the speed of light, get *screwy* compared to the physics in the reference frame we occupy.

[wardaddy]

So when I tell my boys

186,000 miles per second

I’m a liar!

Man those Max Planck folks are into everything....how many fields of science are they in to?

I looked it up....80....and old Max while not a Christian at least believed in God

Unlike most smart big forehead sorts today

Light.....DNA....

[Las Vegas Dave]

Bookmark for later read..

[Dead Corpse]

Speed of light is constant... In a vacuum.

Why do people keep leaving that last part off?