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Article #7398Re: Speed of light
From: Paul M Koloc
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1986 06:27
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1986 06:27
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In article <241@sri-arpa.ARPA> KFL@MX.LCS.MIT.EDU quotes:
> From: "James J. Lippard" <Lippard@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA>
>
> ... When asked to explain how we can see stars millions of light years
> away if the universe is very young, [a creationist] ... indicated that
> the speed of light is decreasing.
To my understanding the speed of light is a weak inverse function of
gravitational field (energy density) and should have INCREASED in
the period after the big bang. By this very late time the rate of
change in volume of the universe (average gravity field density and
corresponding increase in the rate of the speed of light) should
have slowed to a relatively imperceptible amount. As an engineering
physicist, this problem hasn't come up, but I like to see a comment
or two from the relativists or astronomers.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!umcp-cs!prometheus!pmk From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Speed of light Message-ID: <311@prometheus.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Nov-86 01:27:40 EST Article-I.D.: promethe.311 Posted: Sat Nov 8 01:27:40 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Nov-86 03:34:43 EST References: <241@sri-arpa.ARPA> Reply-To: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc) Organization: Prometheus II, Ltd., College Park, MD 20740-0222 Lines: 21