faster than the speed of light? I can walk faster!
By socorban
@socorban (650)
United States
May 22, 2007 11:54pm CST
It baffles me that "light speed" and "light years" are still terms used in measuemets of distance in and outside our solar system. Using these terms assumes the speed of light is constant and un changing when it in fact is not at all. It is slowing down.
Did you know that before the 1950's when light speed was measured it was on a slow decline, it was only after an "atomic" clock was used that it "seemed" to level out. ever heard the saying "rubber ruler"? using light to measure light?
I first heard of it from a creationist, which i am as well, but i looked into it and sure enough its true. The speed of light is in fact not constant, in fact it can be manipulated to speed up or slow down, even come to a complete stop.
Im sure theres an avid evolutionist out there who will read this and have some "half witted" anti creationist comment but hey, harvard did it, it is SCIENCE not theory.
I have provided some SCIENCE FACT links. Check em out.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/02.18/light.html
and
http://search.harvard.edu:8765/query.html?rq=0&qt=speed+of+light
2 responses
@sidbanerjee (125)
• India
23 May 07
Wow , that was a really interesting article. I went through it. Initially as I read what you had written I thought it would violate the theory of relativity but reading the article cleared up my doubts.
However, I disagree with you that "light years" are still used in scientific measurement. I feel they can be used as the light speed in vaccum is referred to and not under any ither conditions, such as the Bose-Einstein condensate.
@socorban (650)
• United States
23 May 07
Yes it is very interesting. Sadly light years are still being used. My neighbors kids 12th grade science book issued in 2006 still use "light years" in combination with astrinomical units in measring and calculating spacial distances. How obsurd.
Vacum yes i agree, light is affected however by any other forces, gravitational pull for example which the "vacum" of space is peppered with sources of.
None the less, its an great read in my opinion and some highly interesting knowledge. Thanks for the response.
@ashu2077 (88)
• United States
7 Jun 07
Hi,
The speed of light in a vacuum is constant just like gravity is constant, sure you can influence the speed and gravity but if left alone the speed is constant and that is the assumption made when measuring distance in light years.
Ash
@socorban (650)
• United States
14 Jun 07
What i find curious though is when light "speed" was measured before the atomic clock (light atoms) it showed a steady decline in speed. The moment they used light (atomic clock) to measure light it suddenly seemed to level out. And after several years of using this atomic clock, they used the original formulas wothout the atomic clock and found a huge decrease in speed, but spanned out over the years of atmic clock use it showed the same steady decline as before the atomic clock was used. Thats one hell of a coincidence wouldnt you say?
