Posted on 11/18/2015 6:47:15 AM PST by fella
The meter is defined relative to the speed of light so the speed of light is by definition a fixed speed.
In doing that they have diminished any ability to actually study variability in nature. Rather than have an arbitrary standard of measure that doesn’t change whereby they might be forced to come to grips with why the speed of light is changing they have an unstable “standard” of measure.
It kinda reminds me of these two things wherein people have decried that something was “arbitrary” when the only thing they have to offer in place of it is expressly arbitrary (what I’ve called the pot calling the fine China black):
... common laws vs administrative laws
... specie backed currency vs fiat currency
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