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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: IceShark who wrote (62138)6/11/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: Merritt  Read Replies (3) of 132070
 
Ice:

I read an article a year or two ago (N.Y.Times) that said that data collected by the Hubble Telescope from studying a very distant object, indicated that the speed of light may not be an absolute.

I believe Einstein himself, revised his theory of relativity after Hubble discovered that the Crab Nebulae was another galaxy rather than just a curious collection of dust and such in space. It would be fitting if the Hubble Telescope caused another re-write.

Science is based on what we see and what we think we can prove, as well as some brilliant logic. As more information is gathered, views and conclusions are altered. Right now, the speed of light is for our purposes, a wall. But I once read about a physicist, on entering a graduate program in the late teens of this century, being counseled not to expect too much because all the great discoveries had already been made...his job would be to tidy up the details.<g>
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