Why the Speed of Light Is Not a Constant

Paul Smeulders

Sutton Courtenay, UK.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2012.34047                

Abstract

A variable Speed of Light is supported by the fact that all direct measurements of that speed are basically flawed, because the “meter per second” is proportional to the Speed of Light. Since it is impossible to measure the Speed of Light directly, any variations of it can only be obtained in an indirect way. It will be shown that the recent Supernovae data are in very good agreement with a universe that is slowly expanding exponentially with a Speed of Light that falls over time, inversely proportionally to the expansion of the universe. It will be shown that the definition of the angular and standard impulse momentum has to be modified to get a consistent expansion of the universe. And that all clocks run inversely proportionally to the red-shift z + 1. General Relativity remains valid even with a varying Speed of Light and also Quantum Mechanics is unaffected.

Keywords

Variable Speed of Light; Expansion of Universe; Conservation of Energy and Angular Impulse Momentum;Supernovae

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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