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The speed of light

Posted by daydreamer at 13:18, 23 Sep 2011

Big news today - the universal constancy of the speed of light looks threatened by something other than theory.

See:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-enviro...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-enviro...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20...

This is going to be huge if it is confirmed.

I imagine this will be jumped on as another colossal mistake in science, but in the same vein as I agree'd about the hypocrisy in scepticism I would recommend caution to anyone tempted to use this that way - this could be much more exciting than just that.

Any temptation to suddenly declare the speed of light not the maximum universal speed, or not a constant, plays a game by forgetting all the thousands of different experiments that say it is. I guess this is why travel in different dimensions seems to be one of the main contenders for the possible answer. That explains both sets of data instead of opting to explain one at the expense of the other.

So have we just found our first objective evidence of travel in extra dimensions?

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Posted by red pill junkie on 23 Sep 2011 at about 20:02.

Can this experiment be replicated in other facility?

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Nor was the "speed of
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Posted by emlong on 03 Oct 2011 at about 15:14.

Nor was the "speed of gravity" problem ever really solved to my satisfaction anyway. There were empirical experiments suggesting that gravitational relationships between two objects "updated" as the objects changed position relative to each other and did so at a rate far in excess of the speed of light.
There is also intriguing evidence that so called "ESP" propagates at a speed far in excess of the speed of light.