To: Lawgvr1955
If you want to be that accurate you shouldn't use 186,000 miles per second. I believe the speed of light is closer to 186,284 miles per second. Plus there is some controversy whether the speed of light has remained constant throughout time.Nope! The speed of light is a constant (in a vacuum). 299,792,458 meters per second. And no, it is not slowing down.
To: RadioAstronomer
The speed of light is a constant (in a vacuum). 299,792,458 meters per second. And no, it is not slowing down.Good..Thats one thing, I hope will stay constant. Can't have someone playing dice with all those constants...chaos would result.... OH No! Now I've done it... :))
259 posted on
07/03/2003 9:37:40 PM PDT by
skinkinthegrass
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To: RadioAstronomer
What is current thinking on the 'inflationary period'?... And at the bang, time and space, as we conceive of them, came into being. Certainly the speed of light is to our 'reception' of electromagnetic energy a constant, but might the spatio-temporal 'stretch' of the universe have made electromagnetic waves traverse spacetime at a different rate during the inflationary period? ... And one last inane question: wouldn't there have been a period in the 'birth' of the spatio-temporal universe when electromagentic energy didn't manifest and the entire universe was in effect 'darkness'?
261 posted on
07/03/2003 9:38:14 PM PDT by
MHGinTN
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