The Speed of Light May Be Less Constant Than We Thought
There are probably only a few things about physics non-scientists know, but that the speed of light is constant is one hopefully of them. It’s what we all--again, hopefully--learned in grade school and high school textbooks. But new research is saying that that might not be the case. Some scientists are exploring the possibility that the speed of light actually changes due to the nature of the vacuum of space. It might go against what we think we know about the Universe, but that’s just what two papers published in the European Physical Journal D are arguing.
The speed of light, which beams along at about 670,616,629 miles per hour, is the backbone of many cosmological and astronomical theories. It’s the number astronomers use when measuring the size and age of the Universe, the distance between objects, and the qualities of the stuff that makes up everything around us. If the speed of light turns out not to be constant, it could mean that some pretty massive things, like the estimated size of the Universe, are different from what we’ve long thought.
That error is small enough for the protons to manage.But Phi^4 is in the right ball park, computed as a sample rate, out of Phi^127.
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