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The main point I was trying to make is still valid here. It used to be also believed that the speed of light was "constant" no matter what medium it was in. The belief was that you could "bounce" it around in a medium (so that its exit would be delayed), but all of the bouncing light in the medium would still travel at the speed of light. Now we know that we can, indeed, slow it down. It is not "constant."
The experiments slowing down light have proven that it is not a "constant." Yet in most schools of thought it is still being treated as one. If we could be wrong about the speed being "constant," could we not also be wrong about the upper limit of travel being "the speed of light"? Also, if it can be violated in the quantum state, why not in the micro and/or macro states?
It is also generally accepted in cosmologic science that the particles escaping the "big bang" traveled in excess of the speed of light in the beginning. It is the only way to explain the distances achieved today. Physicists often explain this by saying that the physical laws had not "appeared" yet. This is the same argument that says it is useless to contemplate reality BEFORE the big bang because the laws of physics were different then.
If the laws could be different before and at the beginning, I ask, "Why can't they be different now?" It is the slavish adherence to the belief that the speed of light is inviolate, that stops much work being done. In order to move beyond it the assumption must be that we can exceed this limit. We only need to figure out how to do it.
Peace,
dave
Light speed isn't constant. Its speed depends on the medium its passing through and gravitational fields.
However, in a total vacuum and in a negligible gravitational field it IS constant.
Also, speed of light has nothing to do with the speed of the actual fabric of time (assuming its moving, which it is, or was....)
I wonder if a 100 x10^99999999 mW laser beam focused in a point less than a micron can affect the fabric of time lolz
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