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Originally Posted by U376977
Timmy, c is slowing down. Here is a site that explains how it is measured, and gives a chart showing the rate of slowing.
In 1738: 303,320 +/- 310 km/second
In 1861: 300,050 +/- 60 km/second
In 1877: 299,921 +/- 13 km/second
In 2004: 299,792 km/second (accepted constant)
The Article is really a good read. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39733
One physist theorized that c actually speeds up and slows, like a wave, through time. Also interesting.
Here is a wiki article that talks about the effects of varible c on different branches of physics and cosmology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light |
Setterfield - the undergrad who did the survey selected his data for what he thought would be "the best fit." When all of the data he collected is used
it actually shows that the speed of light is "increasing."
Using a pocket watch in the 1700's to measure the speed of light will inevitably be fraught with inadequacies. Using an oscilloscope in the 21st Century will give you a more precise reading. Since the advent of electrical measuring devices the speed of light seems to have stabilized. Curious.
The World Net Daily article was based upon an article written by the lovable gadfly, Lambert Dolphin. The World Net Daily article failed to give us all the details. For some reason. I dunno.
To line up the dates and alleged "speeds of light" like they did without providing the means in which that data was collected and failing to mention that only selected data points were used is just the sort of stuff that I was complaining about earlier, Orthodoxy. We have to go back to the original artical by Dolphin to get the facts.
The article is a deliberate attempt to mislead. Notice the cluster of "data" from the pre-electrical world? And then only one year (2004) is even used from the time period since Einstein's first paper on Relativity (1905). Why is that? No mention of the Michelson–Morley experiment of 1887 either.
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