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Old 06-26-2014, 01:08 PM   #2109
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Originally Posted by surferguy View Post
Current Speed of Light measurement wrong?

http://phys.org/news/2014-06-physici...r-thought.html
I think they are overstating the importance of this, when they say that the implications would be stagering.

If the time difference for light to travel 168,000 LY is 4.7 hrs, that means they are off by ~ 3.19 x 10^-7%, or less than 1m/s off of the speed we use now.
I'd say that's probably close enough, when you're measuring cosmic distances.

It does sound intereting though, and if it's true, i'm sure it will have some other cool implications.
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