[longshadow]

Longshadow, does this stuff sound familiar to you?

Yup. Straight out of Medved's playbook.

This is where my derogatory expression about "defrocked scientists working in their basement laboratories" derives.

[VadeRetro]

Another of medved's cranks, Ralph Sansbury, actually did an experiment in his basement to "prove" that light's apparent speed is an illusory effect; it is really instantaneous.