From: alexanian@uncw.edu
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 14:44:05 EDT
Davies in his web page says, "Webb observed that the fine structure
content, or alpha, of the quasar light was about a millionth smaller
than the accepted value of approximately 1/137. This suggested that
alpha is not a constant number throughout the universe, as had
previously been believed. The constant nature of alpha currently
underpins many of our laws of physics, including Einstein's Theory of
Relativity." Now alpha=e^2/hc, where e is the charge of the
electron, h is Planck's constant and c is the speed of light. Davies
supposes that a variation of alpha implies a variation of c. It is
interesting that when Dirac was discussing the possibility of a
theory deriving the value of alpha, Dirac concluded that the less
fundamental constant was h. Moorad
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From: Inge Frette [mailto:inge.frette@geologica.no]
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:58 AM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Change of speed of light
Hello folks,
a group of Australian physicists (including Paul Davies)
have a paper published in Nature (Aug. 8th) where they
claim that the speed of light has changed.
Here is some info about this from Davies' university
http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/events/index.asp?ItemID=607
Anyone that has read the paper and/or has a comment on this ?
Could this be used as an argument by YEC people ?
Hasn't the change of speed of light been an argument among
some young earth christians ?
Best regards from Inge
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