RE: The universe appears "old", but it is still less than 10,000 years old
January 16, 2014 at 12:36 pm
(January 15, 2014 at 7:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:(January 6, 2014 at 12:25 am)orogenicman Wrote: Are you suggesting that the speed of light is not natural?
The one-way speed of light in any given direction is stipulated by man as long as the round trip speed remains the experimentally verifiable value, this is a core principle of special relativity.
“That light requires the same time to traverse the path A → M as for the path B → M is in reality neither a supposition nor a hypothesis about the physical nature of light, but a stipulation which I can make of my own freewill in order to arrive at a definition of simultaneity.” -Einstein 1961, p. 23 [emphasis is in the original]
Quote: You're the one who considers the one-way speed of light to be instantaneous (and thus magically affects the age of the universe) sans any supporting evidence whatsoever. Congratulations.
Yes, using this convention it moves at an infinite speed towards the observer, meaning we witness cosmic events in real-time. Imagine that.
So your basic premise is that the speed of light is entirely dependent on an observer?
What is the speed of light without an observer?
N.B. You are utterly misinterpreting special relativity.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
