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To: jbIII who wrote (277)	7/20/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: AJ Berger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2229

New question on the Speed of Light. I'm always amazed how vast scientists believe the universe is based on their speed of light yardstick. So my question is, how do we actually know that light speed does not vary when photons leaves our solar system? We already know that light speed is influenced by gravity, so how do we really know that the reduced gravity outside our solar system does not actually effect it. I'm sure mathematitians are all convinced with their neatly fitting formulas, but what imperical evidence do we really have? Look; physicist are spending millions of dollars right not trying to find even one proton disintegrate in order to prove some theories, and are currently sweating it out because so far, they've come up empty. I wonder if in the distant future when we can communicate with probes sent outside our solar system that we don't find new constants in physics to grapple with...