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13 Post author: NancyLebovitz 20 December 2013 05:04PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 December 2013 06:30:40AM 1 point [-]

What would it even mean for the speed of light to not be constant, other than we're using the wrong system of coordinates?

Comment author: CronoDAS 24 December 2013 12:35:46AM 2 points [-]

It could mean that the dimensionless constant "alpha", also known as the "fine structure constant", varies, and the simplest way to express that change mathematically is as a change in C rather than in one of the other parameters (such as the charge of the electron).

(I read a book about this.)