dailygalaxy.com — Magueijo, a 40-year old native of Portugal, puts forth the heretical idea that in the very early days of the universe light traveled faster—an idea that if proven could dethrone Einstein and forever change our understanding of the universe.
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cheimJan 7, 2009
This is not a new theory. Joao was featured in Discover Magazine years ago. In fact I have his book, it was published in 2003. Cool idea, but since then the theory should have been built on and or "tested". I'm glad his theory is getting recognition, even if it is wrong, because he thought outside the box with it, and that's what physics needs right now to get it out of its GUT rut.
tomholiusJan 7, 2009
lol that made my night, f**king hilarious
Closed AccountJan 7, 2009
Bad joke was bad :(
gonzoakqj10Jan 7, 2009
Picture a single marble that is twice as big as our universe. Now picture your seeing that marble the same size as a normal marble[1]. Now imagine that the marble is going 40MPH relative to us viewing a marble at normal size. Now go back to viewing the marble as the size of our universe, and view the marble from our size on earth relative to the universe. How fast is that? I'm guessing hell of a lot fast than light.1. insert jabber about "well is it one of those big marbles or small marbles"
Closed AccountJan 8, 2009
Hey, I didn't say popular culture... I said popular consciousness...which is a bit vague in and of itself, but what I meant was conversations like this...references in the types of articles and specials I was listing off, etc... I wouldn't say that I'm massively misinformed...just under-informed a bit. I usually don't overstep the bounds of my knowledge with my ideas the way I did with the CMB comment...apologies. Not to get too defensive here (too late!), but the type of info we're gleaning from the CMB is providing insight into what I claimed it was...and that's the key idea I was trying to convey. Anyways, it's been grand. I'm probably about 10% more motivated to dig into this subject matter than I was before our little conversation. If only I'd invested the same kinda time into this as I did studying fringe pharmacology in my younger days... Then again, the revelations in this field weren't nearly as cool back then. :-)
silverphoenix99Jan 9, 2009
Good news everyone!
Closed AccountJan 12, 2009
you dont make any sense man
bert870Jan 13, 2009
as far as i can tell no one's even mentioned this is a very old theory, i heard it first about 10 years ago when measuring the speed of light had slowed down considerbly over the past 70 years or so since they've been able to semi-accurately. Most saw it as more accurate measurements which is no doubt somewhat the case however the trend all pointed towards one direction, slowing. i just googled it to get a link for documentation and it came back with a creationist article from 6 years ago which will no doubt upset most people who comment here as it will seem to represent something they disbelieve intuitively but none the less this guy is getting credit for dozens of others work who came before him <a class="user" href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/0809_cdk_davies.asp,">http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/0809_cdk_ ...</a> if this one upsets you no doubt you can find one that supports your philosophical beliefs, which seems to be of more importance then any when it comes to most people and the field of science haha