Talk:C-decay

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[edit] VSOL

Is this concept different from the one mentioned in Variable speed of light? If it's not, this article could probably be merged into that one. Even if they are slightly different, this article might be best as a section of that article. Thoughts? --ParkerHiggins ^{( talk contribs )} 07:26, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] cutoff date

In Setterfield's paper he introduced a "cutoff date beyond which there is a zero rate of change", making the theory unfalsifiable by new observations of c.

Didn't Setterfield later realise that the observed cutoff date that he found in the data was due to the fact that all accurate measurements of the speed of light since the 1960s were done with atomic clocks, which slow down at the same rate as the speed of light they are measuring?

I'm sure he came up with some ad-hoc explanation, that's the way it goes. But many modern measures of the speed of light do not measure time at all. They measure the distance needed to make a standing wave at a particular frequency within a resonant cavity. The speed is calculated by dividing the length of the cavity by the frequency, sort of. Many of the modern measures in the immediate post-war era were made this way, due largely to the wartime invention of stable narrow-band oscillators used for radar. Maury 15:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)