Re: [ATM] re: Large Telescope?

[Michael Peck <mpeck1@ix.netcom.com>]

At 18:31 01-11-04, Guy Brandenburg wrote:
>The michelson-morely experiments of over 100 years ago
>showed definitively that the speed of light in a
>vacuum is constant to any observer in any inertial
>frame of reference. I don't know what flavor of

There are semi-respectable, if not widely accepted, cosmological models in 
which the speed of light is variable over cosmological distances. There's 
even a recently published pop science book on the topic: "Faster than the 
speed of light: The story of a scientific speculation," by Joao Mageuijo. 
Googling on the phrase "VSL cosmology" (the common jargon for this line of 
research) turns up 1,330 hits.

I have no thoughts on the original poster's proposal, but if they have a 
legitimate experiment there would be some interest in it. I'd suggest 
cultivating some friends at a university physics/astronomy department. 
There are lots of meter class telescopes in university observatories, and 
procedures for allocating telescope time are probably less rigorous than at 
national observatories.

Google is our friend -

Mike Peck


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