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Is there anything on the boards that generates actual serious conversation anymore?
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Dude. Light is a small component of the electromagnetic spectrum. If the speed of light changes, the speed of radio waves, infrared light, microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, etc etc. ALL changes.
This would have disastrous effects on the functioning equipment that utilizes these rays.
Like, for example, TVs, radios, microwaves, X-ray machines, nuclear reactors, and tanning booths. Oh, and our EYES.
The fact that all these things continue to function properly without constant readjustment seems to cut a M-class planet-sized hole in the theory.
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not if the change has slown down. light might have slowed quickly 12 billion years ago, but that was 12 billion years ago.
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Except we don't have 12 billion years to work with, but only 6000. And two.
Anyway, a single datapoint does not a theory overthrow, especially since no one has yet confirmed it. It would be interesting to see some revolution go on with regards to relativity, so that I can go to Proxima Centauri. But: Relativity = strongly predictive, theories in opposition to relativity = not strongly predictive, if predictive at all.
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Perhaps I am missing something, but from here comes this:
quote:They argue that if instead the charge of the electron could go up, then this would mean the event horizon of a black hole - the region from which light and matter cannot escape - would shrink over time. And that would violate one of the golden rules of physics, the second law of thermodynamics.
Uh, I am not a scientist, but that black holes radiate and thus shrink over time until they eventually evaporate completely is exactly the case according to Professor Hawking, who made the case something like 20 years ago, which has been at least theoretically confirmed. So, uh, someone somewhere is forgetting something.
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