From: Avatar Polymorph (avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 10 2002 - 06:02:38 MDT
Bizarre and unlikely thoughts...
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/07/1028157961167.html
re speed of light slowing... from the above article
"When they measured the fine structure constant of this 12 billion-year-old
light, Webb and Murphy found it was slightly smaller than it would be today.
Mathematically, there were two possible reasons for this - either the
electric charge of the electrons had increased, or the speed of light had
fallen.
Using Stephen Hawking's formula for black hole thermodynamics, Davies, Davis
and Lineweaver ruled out the electric charge possibility. By adapting
Hawking's formula, they determined that an increase in electric charge would
break the second law of thermodynamics, which says energy can only flow from
hot spots to cold spots.
"That's illegal. It would be like a cup of coffee sitting on your desk
getting hotter," Lineweaver says."
Rivers of dark matter... gas clouds... singularities...
If extropy is already at work, where is it likely to be located? What is its
power source?
Perhaps it is not the speed of light that is most interesting, but the
unauthorized cup of coffee???
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