To: Dominick; megatherium; PetroniusMaximus
Don't know if someone else has this covered, but the speed of light has been theorized not to be constant for quite a while. I think the current trend is that it is slowing down, but we are talking small variations in an enormous speed. I will try to google it, but I seem to remember Discover magazine had something on this recently.
To: Dominick; megatherium; PetroniusMaximus
To: redgolum
There is no theory that shows any change. There are a few publicatons that show small vanishing changes in the fine constant.
The BBC article doens't reference any publications.
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08/30/2004 10:56:45 AM PDT by
Dominick
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To: redgolum; PetroniusMaximus; Dominick
I think the current trend is that [the speed of light] is slowing down, but we are talking small variations in an enormous speed.Yes. The current theories in physics that light is slowing down are talking about billion-year time frames. None of this can explain why we see galaxies that are millions of light-years away if the universe is less than 10,000 years old.
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