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To: DMaA who wrote (3464)11/8/2001 11:28:33 AM
From: ahhahaRespond to of 24758
 
I think you were correct. Light speed is a velocity upper bound that is unique and constant. This claim is a basic assumption of special relativity, but it is an assumption. The assumption is maintained because it has delivered good experimental results and makes theoretical physics sensible and consistent. There are variable light speed theories floating around, but they are more about the effort to stretch our assumptions than serious refutations. In this sense the variable light theories are like the FED's concept of productivity.



To: DMaA who wrote (3464)11/8/2001 11:39:05 AM
From: LPS5Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 24758
 
Interesting. I'd never heard a lower bound speed clocked, atomically, only that there were mathematically/physically significant deviations in c where light was made to pass through certain transitory states of matter - a specific type of plasma, I believe.

Ahhaha would probably know more about this, and offer a better grasp of the implications of this than I can.

LP.


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