Horse, This sounds great! I love a sea-change!
Marsha On Sep 2, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Horse wrote: > Hi Guys > > From what my friend was saying, this new ( and I believe it is very new ) > idea about C has completely screwed the old ideas about relativity, special > or otherwise and has, effectively, turned physics on it's head. It looks like > it's as big a change from what we have thought until recently as the change > from Newtonian physics to Quantum physics. > I've emailed him to see if he has any references that I can point you in the > direction of! > I know about most of what's already been mentioned, slowing light down in > different mediums, space stretching but remaining constant locally, > gravitational variance etc. but, if I understood him correctly and he's > normally pretty reliable on this sort of stuff, what he's talking about could > mean that large chunks of physics is just about to be completely re-written! > I'll await his reply and let you know. > > Cheers > > > Horse > > > On 02/09/2010 19:58, Magnus Berg wrote: >> Hi >> >> On 2010-09-02 12:45, 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! >> >> Actually, c will still be constant because even if space is stretched out, >> light will still travel so and so many km per second. It's just that a km >> gets longer if space is stretched out. So, *locally* (inside the stretched >> space), light travels at c, but from a point outside the stretched space, >> the light will have travelled faster than c. >> >> Magnus >> >> 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 >> > > -- > > "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production > deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." > — Frank Zappa > > 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 ___ 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
