Thanks Horse, Much of this stuff, at least the tiny bit I can decipher, is interesting, especially the twist and turns.
Marsha On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Horse wrote: > Hi Marsha > It probably depends on what you mean by a vacuum but I was having an > interesting conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about C. > Apparently, from what I gather he was talking about, C is no longer a > constant but is dependent upon the curvature of space - i.e. if there is a > gravitational difference in one area of the universe compared to another area > (E.g. a singularity) then there will be a difference in the value of C! The > greater the effect of gravity the slower C becomes and thus time is affected. > So in areas of high gravitation time is slower than in areas of lower > gravitation. Weird? Maybe. The Standard Model has been in a bit of a mess > recently and I don't suppose that this helps too much. > This also, apparently, has implications for the age of the universe as in the > early stages of the universe overall gravity would have been much greater so > time would have been slower which means, I think, that the universe could be > older than has been assumed!!!!! It could also mean that as the universe > expands and average gravity value decreases time speeds up. Which may also be > a factor in the apparent increase in the speed of expansion of the universe. > Maybe! All pretty mind-blowing but very interesting. > I'm sure this idea has been around for a while but I can't find specific > references to it at the moment but I think there was an article recently in > either New Scientist or Scientific American relating to some new ideas on the > subject and how it relates to a reduction in the amount of dark energy/matter > required to make various sums add up properly. Anyone else heard anything > about this? Or am I becoming delusional as I get older? Which is entirely > possible! > > Horse > > > > On 02/09/2010 07:58, MarshaV wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> It is my understanding that the usefulness of c is dependent >> on it existing within a vacuum, a vacuum which does not >> exist, is this true? Anybody know? >> >> >> >> Marsha >> >> >> >> ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
