Re: Inconstant Moon and Stars

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 23:59:05 MDT


Narcissitically quoting my own post:
<<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&
u=/nm/20020807/sc_nm/science_light_dc_1

Inconstant Speed of Light May Debunk Einstein

Wed Aug 7, 2:07 PM ET
By Michael Christie

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A team of Australian scientists has proposed that the
speed of light may not be a constant, a revolutionary idea that could unseat
one of the most cherished laws of modern physics -- Einstein's theory of
relativity.

The team, led by theoretical physicist Paul Davies of Sydney's Macquarie
University, say it is possible that the speed of light has slowed over
billions of years.

If so, physicists will have to rethink many of their basic ideas about the
laws of the universe.

"That means giving up the theory of relativity and E=mc squared and all that
sort of stuff," Davies told Reuters. ..>

Are we really so preoccupied or jaded that this "development" seems
unimportant?
;-) Oh well!--Live n' Learn



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