RE: The universe appears "old", but it is still less than 10,000 years old
November 26, 2013 at 6:50 am
(November 26, 2013 at 2:34 am)orogenicman Wrote: So, warped one. Even if the measurement of the speed of light was off by the tiny amount shown (and even if that tiny difference was not measurement error), you still cannot get a 10,000 year old universe. What you would have to argue is that the speed of light was vastly different up until the time we first started measuring it. And I must say, if that is your argument, it fails miserably.
That isn't his argument. You seem to have confused ASC with C-Decay.
What is the experimental basis of Special Relativity?
Quote:Note that while these experiments clearly use a one-way light path and find isotropy, they are inherently unable to rule out a large class of theories in which the one-way speed of light is anisotropic. These theories share the property that the round-trip speed of light is isotropic in any inertial frame, but the one-way speed is isotropic only in an aether frame. In all of these theories the effects of slow clock transport exactly offset the effects of the anisotropic one-way speed of light (in any inertial frame), and all are experimentally indistinguishable from SR.(emphasis added)
As crazy as it seems, ASC does actually appear to be viable. The accuracy with which we can measure the speed of light has absolutely nothing to do with synchrony conventions.
I'm not saying it's correct, far from it. But if there is a flaw in ASC, then it lies within the implications and consequences of such a convention.
