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Guardian Unlimited | Life | Why Einstein may have got it wrong
by Neoteric at 9:17 pm EDT, Apr 11, 2005

] A century after Albert Einstein published his most famous
] ideas, physicists will today commemorate the occasion by
] trying to demolish one of them.
]
]
] Astronomers will tell experts gathering at Warwick
] University to celebrate the anniversary of the great
] man's "miracle year" that the speed of light - Einstein's
] unchanging yardstick that underpins his special theory of
] relativity - might be slowing down.


 
RE: Guardian Unlimited | Life | Why Einstein may have got it wrong
by Shannon at 11:12 am EDT, Apr 12, 2005

] If true, it means that something called the fine
] structure constant - a measure of the strength of
] electromagnetic force that holds atoms together - has
] changed by about 0.001%

What nit-picky Bastards...

Although i wonder if the expansion of space accounts for the time lag. Over that distance, it might make a tangible difference. So light would be moving at the same speed, there's just more space.


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