Re: Speed Of Light Slowing Down.

[Rick Tarara <rtarara@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

Anyone over 30 and certainly anyone 2 or 3 decades older, knows for sure
that time is speeding up.  Each year passes more quickly than the one
before!  ;-)

Rick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Turner" <turner@MORNINGSIDE.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Speed Of Light Slowing Down.


> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:41:01 -0600, QUIST, OREN <OREN_QUIST@SDSTATE.EDU>
> wrote:
>
> > All interesting comments.  But, the problem IMHO is that since
propagation
> > speed is equal to
> >
> >        1 / [sqrt( mu-zero x epsilon-zero)]
> >
> > If one starts messing with the speed of light, then one must also recon
> with
> > changes in other fundamental constants.  That is, the basic forces of
> nature
> > must change also.
> >
> > Oren Quist, SDSU
>
> But why is that a problem?  What evidence is there that these are not
time-
> dependent quantities?  Isn't this just another assumption?
> Even without the evidence, this seems a more (Occam's Razor-esque) likely
> explanation of uniformity than inflation theory.
>
> More interesting than whether other "constants" change is whether mass
> changes.  Einstein's E=mc^2 (ok, that's up for debate if this is true) has
> been verified experimentally.  If c is a variable, then presumably the
> manifestation of energy as mass would also be a variable (unless energy
> itself is variable - can this occur?).
> Just a thought....
> Now, would this affect gravity, or would G change to accomodate the
> variable m?  If gravity changes, there may be other evidence to support
> this observation.