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To: The Philosopher who wrote (9750)	3/26/2001 3:22:06 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (3) of 82486

The speed of light carrying information has been and continues to be fixed. No experiment has undermined that in a vacuum any incontrovertible way (including the superluminal effects reported in cesium ion plasmas and other anomalous superluminal quantum tunnelings through solids). It has long been known that if you stand on a turntable and spin a beam of light, the spot of light can easily exceed the speed of light, i.e., be superluminal. This doesn't produce a system of causation any faster than the speed of light. If you have a consistent theory and all the experimental evidence supports it well, then all is hunky-dory; if not the theory needs adjustment. THAT is what science is all about. This is antithetical to theological explanations which refuse to accept conflicting data into the theory without creating some type of ugly "bolt-on" to the original theory. This is the case with the precession of magnetic fields reported a few weeks back that undermines the standard model. The standard model has to be reviewed due to this data. Newtonian mechanics is not wrong within the appropriate inertia reference frame for such predictions. Maxwell's and Heaviside's equations work in all environments in which they are appropriate. The big bang is highly probable and experiments to duplicate this hypothetical condition are all pretty consistent. That just makes the BB more likely than other explanations so far. There is still room for your Creationism (presuming that is your alternative theory) but it has to occur BEFORE or exactly at the instant of the Big Bang. What is your theory of the universe and what experiments do you suggest to test that theory? If it is theological, then there are no experiments that you can allow because you must classify it as mysterious and your God won't function on demand. Things that were mysterious in the past (like static electricity) are pretty well understood now. You could probably offer a supernatural explanation but it wouldn't be able to make predictions.

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