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Has Anyone Else Been Questioning the Constant Nature of Light's Speed?

I have been looking at quite a bit of data, and it appears that some Physicists are questioning the speed of light has always been a constant. It is seeming to answer some fundimental questions about recent observations of self similarity.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    A number of young universe creation science people are grasping at straws to explain how we can see stars over 10,000 light years away if the universe is less than 10,000 years old. So they made up this crazy theory that the Speed of light at the moment of creation was vastly greater than it is now and it has been getting slower ever since. There is no evidence to support this idea.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I believe you already have part of the answer in your own explanation, "frame of reference." You are setting up different frames of reference, the folks on planet A versus the folks on planet B versus some 3rd observer watching the photons from both planets. I can't do the explanation justice but hunt around for discussion of "frames of reference" and how similar paradoxes are explained. I have a similar complaint about wave-particle duality and speed-of-light. If a photon is created, and it has a wave function (existence) stretching to infinity in two directions (dimishing to infinitely small values), didn't that wave function just exceed the speed of light?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Light travels at different speeds in different media. This is a known fact.

    Creationists have little credibility because of their lack of knowledge about science.

    http://ldolphin.org/constc.shtml

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  • 1 decade ago

    Could you please give us some names of these physicists? And what do you mean by "self similarity" in this context? Do you mean it in the sense it is used by R. N. Henriksen and Paul S. Wesson?

    Perhaps you are referring to E. Adelberger, G. Dvali and A. Gruzinov? Or J. P. Uzan, J. Casado, or others? Without knowing who you are referring to, it is rather difficult for me to say if "anyone else" has raised this question.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No, no physicist seriously questions whether light has always traveled at c. Only creationist crackpots.

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