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Article #5344Re: GIANT OF SCIENCE STEVEN WEINBERG
From: Michael Helland
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:29
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:29
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On Mar 21, 11:49 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2502/stories/20080201504304100.htm > Giant of Science Steven Weinberg's Brother Sheldon Lee Glashow: "Well, > there are no sacred cows in physics. Laws of physics such as > conservation of energy, or whatever, are made to be tested. There is > no guarantee that Lorentz invariance is an exact symmetry of nature. > That special relativity is precisely true. The attributes of special > relativity that have been tested best are the universality of the > speed of light Light from far far away galaxies is redshifted. That means it slows down before it gets here. To avoid that problem, we assume it doesn't slow down, it just has more space to go through. But seriously. We should just admit it slows down.
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