Quote:
Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Nope, that's why the speed of light is C in gold ol' E=MC^2,
C=Constant
Time is realtive depending on your velocity and the effect of gravity in your vicinity, but no matter your frame of reference you'll always measure the speed of light as the same value.
|
The logical outcome of the (absurd) argument that time ran at a much faster rate is that light wouldn't *be* a constant, or, to be more precise, was one constant before 6000 years ago and a different one now.
So if, for example, you were measuring the distance to a particular galaxy and it came out to say that the galaxy was a billion light-years away, what this "theory" would say is that the galaxy is actually 6000 light-years away plus one second of light that comprises another 994 000 light-years of distance/time. To make it seem that we can see back 15 billion years to the "beginning of time", the light speed constant would have to had been around 50 quintillion times as big as it is now, so that an apparent distance of that many light-years would be 6000 light years + 14 999 999 994 more light-years that were compressed into an instant.
However, if this was the case, there would be vast differences between, for example, stars that began burning within that 6000 year light cone under the new lightspeed, and those outside it that began fusion under the original lightspeed.* So it didn't happen.
*Which would be impossible, undoubtedly - e=mc2 with the predicted "fast time" lightspeed would mean there would be 223 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 times (since the "c" variable is so much bigger) as much potential energy in every unit of mass, so that one god-created star the size of a teacup would have burned with far more energy than all the stars in our currently observable universe. This would have then blown all of that hypothetical star's atoms away at tremendous velocities, in the extremely unlikely event that they survived long enough to be so blown. So no stars and galaxies, just a big soup of shattered matter converted to pure energy, which I think would be quite noticeable.