[DittoJed2]

Scientist slows speed of light

Only thing I can find on the increase

See also A SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATION OF THE SETTERFIELD HYPOTHESIS

[Aric2000]

Geez, the one post where I actually refute every point without belittling comments and etc, and it is compeletely ignored.

Guess I need to get back to belittling.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/963744/posts?page=1045#1045

[VadeRetro]

I got intrigued enough about problems with Setterfield's theory to email Lambert Dolphin with my questions. I eventually heard back from him and from Helen Fryman, Setterfield's technical editor, but they did little besides tell me that my objections were for some unspecified reason not a problem.

I told the story in overlong fashion here. The capsule version:

Setterfield claims that Adam can be standing in the Garden of Eden on Day 6 of Creation Week and everything works the same as it does now, despite light being 11 million times faster than now and the sun and the earth experiencing nuclear reactions speeded by a similar factor. That's why the earth and the sun "look" old according to Setterfield: when light was fast, nuclear reactions went fast.

That could be a problem because Adam is getting bombarded with vastly more radiation than a person standing in a garden would be today. Setterfield's answer--never mind how he gets there--is to say that each photon has proportionately lower energy.

My main objection was that human eyes don't see photons of such low energy, since they are very long-wave. And I never got a convincing answer to why that's not a problem.

[BMCDA]

Just what I expected: they increased the group velocity (see also this link). What we refer to as the speed of light (c) however, is the phase velocity which is constant in a vacuum. Of course in a medium the speed of light is dependent on the complex refractive index (which in general is also frequency dependent -> the cause for dispersion).