speed of light

[Steve Frantz <sfrantz@YAHOO.COM>]

Jack Earley wrote...



Wait a minute--which speed of light? It's been decreasing for

the past 300 years that it's been measured. . . .



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I'm not sure if this was a joke, but the speed of light has not

been changing. If you are refering to the Setterfield analysis,

he didn't use the data correctly (a polite way of saying that he

messed with the data to get the answer he wanted.)



By observing light emitted from Supernova SN1987A, it can be

determined that the speed of light has not changed appreciably

in the past 170,000 years. 



See: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/c-decay.html



And just to keep this on topic, that means that the rates of

radioactive decay have been constant throughout geologic time

also.



Stephen Frantz

sfrantz@yahoo.com



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