M R wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> The relativity theory has been challenged.
> The good thing in this webpage
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/07/australia.lightspeed/index.html
>
> is that the speed of light is defined as
> 300,000 kilometers a second. Miles is not rounded.
>
> Its a nice coincidence that the speed of light has
> rounded numbers in SI units (meter & second).
>
> I hope the length of 'meter' and the time duration of
> 'second' will be useful even in the distant galaxies
> since light is a universal concept.
>
> Madan
Last spring we had a guest lecturer, Dr. Fillipenko, who presented some
of his teams findings. Those findings are suggestive of a possibility
that there is a "dark energy" in the universe, rather like Einstein's
anti-gravity constant. It all stems from a curve that would model the
expansion characteristics of the universe as behaving rather flatly. I
asked if it were possible for the curve's characteristics (based on
studies of distant and therefore distant supernovae) to be explainable
if one assumed that the speed of light was gradually getting smaller.
Fillopenko said that indeed that was a counter-hypothesis and that, as
of yet, there was no means to distinguish between the two.
Jim
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