[DFSchmidt]

The general theory of relativity says that the speed of light would be constant to all observers at any one time. It did not say that the speed of light would be constant through out all time. A speed of light that is changing with respect to time has already been postulated.

...OK, I'll run with that, and see what happens. Let's see, we can see objects at least 10 billion light years away... So if I need to change that into, say, 10,000 years, I only need to slow down light by a factor of a million. That means that the speed of light, averaging over all time up until just now, would need to have been about...(drum roll please)...

0.3 m/sec(!)

So way back when, I could've broken the speed of light by walking fast! Man oh man, things would've been breaking the speed of light left and right... You could almost bottle light and sell it! That ROCKS!!! Relativistic, time-traveling cheetahs, boys and girls, we're not making this up... This is even cooler than what happens if Planck's constant gets really big... You've certainly made me want to believe that the universe is that young, anyway - I'd pay good money to see that :)

DFS

[Cvengr]

You claim that a younger universe implies a speed of light slower than a cheetah. Perhaps if only one independent variable were previously introduced and then removed, the observations of today become normalized with Scriptural record. Just imagine if multiple variable ever existed throughout eternity past and possibly modified over the same remote epoch.

I've discovered that when one works with exponentials, the consequence of error or mistaken assumption can make gross distortions of how we understand physical phenomenon to occur. Especially when one deals with orders of magnitude greater than 4-6, considerable effects and side-effects of magnitude are significant to lessor ranges within possible domains.

I simply haven't seen the incontrovertible arguments which would override Scripture. At best they might imply a different interpretation of a literal Genesis account, but even this Herculean attempt has yet to have received even a sophomoric approach in deduction.

I have observed many academics who have virtually no grasp of Scripture and worse have insisted upon ignorance of Scripture in order to satisfy arrogant beliefs of self importance. Why should any student respect a 'professor' who lacks the academic discipline to even read the Bible. Such a trait lays testimony to academia's lack of trustworthiness in a truthful quest of knowledge.

There was a time when the majority of academia did believe in God. I don't find this condition to exist in academia today. Along with that dearth of faith exudes a contagion for arrogance and affinity for ignorance of Scripture.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Um, think you're "walkin" on the wrong end of the change function there hoss!

The function i saw placed us on the asympotic side of an exponential decay of speed...which would appear as a small, decreasing speed.

After that, you have to ask if the universe (including your legs), is slowing down relative to it.