On Dr. Carl Baugh's television program; "Creation in the 21st Century" he
stated that as light from the furthest edges of the universe reached the
earth, it has slowed to about a mere crawl of the speed it started out as.
Food for thought!--rb

http://www.truthandscience.com/dr_carl_baugh.html

Here's miore info on the speed of light.--rb

Perhaps the light constant C is not constant.

The Doppler effect could be caused by the degradation of the speed of light
as well.

Australian physicist Barry Setterfield, and mathematician Trevor Norman,
examined all of the experimental measurements since 1657 and concluded that
light has been slowing down. Canadian mathematician Alan Montgomery also
analyzed the data statistically and concluded that the decay in the velocity
of light has followed a cosecant-squared curve with a correlation
coefficient of better than 99%.

With this curve the speed of light may have been:

10-30% faster in the time of Christ.

Twice as fast in the days of Solomon

Four times faster in Abraham's time and,

As much as 10 million times faster 6000 years ago at creation

This has enormous implications in Physics as many of the fundamental
theories rely on the C constant. The universe may be 10 million times
smaller than we think.

We are at the flat part of the cosecant-squared curve now and the light is
slowing down but not very fast, for all purposes the 186,000 mi./sec. is
relatively constant now.

Recent studies of red shift data also support the light slowing theory.

William Tift, astronomer at U. of Arizona. Collected 20 years of data on red
shifts. Noted several interesting things.

1. Red shift was dependent on type of galaxy. I.e. spiral and dim had higher
RS that elliptical and bright.

2. Some clusters exhibited only RS data of certain discrete values, not
smooth. If c was decaying then specific values of c govern the quantization
of emitted wavelengths.

3. Some galaxies i.e. Andromeda had a shift to the blue which means they are
rushing towards us.

This could radically alter the Big Bang theories.

Radiometric dating also is affected as c affects the rate of nucleon
exchange and alpha particle escape rate in all forms of dating. I.e. C14,
potassium-argon, chlorine isotope etc.

  The speed of light may not be a constant. It does vary in different media
(hence the rainbow effect of light going through a prism) and may vary in
different places in space. The entire idea behind the black hole theory is
that light can be attracted by gravity and be unable to escape the great
pull of these imaginary black holes. No one knows what light is let alone
that its velocity has been the same all through time and space. Since atomic
clocks use the wavelength of the Cesium 133 atom as a standard of time, if
the speed of light is decaying, the clock would be changing at the same rate
and therefore not be noticed.

On February 18, 1999, Houston Chronicle ran an article on page 10A about a
Danish Physicist, Dr. Hau working at Harvard, being able to slow down light
by cooling it. They cool it to fifty-billionths of a degree above absolute
zero -459.67. The light was slowed down to 38 MPH!

In Dallas Morning News on 2-28-2000 the article says they have now slowed it
to 1 MPH! See also New Scientist, July 24, 1999 pp. 28-32 and Science News,
June 9, 1984, p.359 for more on gravity effecting light.

"Eureka! Scientists break speed of light", Jonathan Leake, Science Editor,
Sunday Times [UK] June 4, 2000.
UNITED STATES SCIENTISTS claim they have broken the ultimate speed barrier:
the speed of light. In research carried out in the United States, particle
physicists have shown that light pulses can be accelerated to up to 300
times their normal velocity of 186,000 miles per second.
The work was carried out by Dr Lijun Wang, of the NEC research institute in
Princeton, who transmitted a pulse of light towards a chamber filled with
specially treated cesium gas. See also: New York Times May, 30, 2000
[URL=http://www.nytimes.com]www.nytimes.com[/URL]

Scientists Bring Light To Full Stop, Hold It, Then Send It On Its Way
By James Glanz
[URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/18/science/18LIGH]www.nytimes.com/2001/0
1/18/science/18LIGH[/URL]
1-18-01

Researchers say they have slowed light to a dead stop, stored it and then
released it as if it were an ordinary material particle.
The achievement is a landmark feat that, by reining in nature's swiftest and
most ethereal form of energy for the first time, could help realize what are
now theoretical concepts for vastly increasing the speed of computers and
the security of communications.
Two independent teams of physicists have achieved the result, one led by Dr.
Lene Vestergaard Hau of Harvard University and the Rowland Institute for
Science in Cambridge, Mass., and the other by Dr. Ronald L. Walsworth and
Dr. Mikhail D. Lukin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
also in Cambridge.

During the last 300 years, at least 164 separate measurements of the speed
of light have been published. Sixteen different measurement techniques were
used.
"THE SPEED OF LIGHT HAS APPARENTLY DECREASED SO RAPIDLY THAT EXPERMENTAL
ERROR CANNOT EXPLAIN IT!" Astronomer Barry Setterfield
The Atomic Constants, Light, and Time 1987

"NO PHYSICAL LAW PREVENTS ANYTHING FROM EXCEEDING THE SPEED OF LIGHT. IN TWO
PUBLISHED EXPERIMENTS, THE SPEED OF LIGHT WAS APPARENTLY EXCEEDED BY AS MUCH
AS A FACTOR OF 100!"

"Thirty Six Nanoseconds Faster Than Light"
Electronics and Wireless World 1988 pp 1162-1165
"Faster Than Light?" Radio-Electronics pp 55-58.
Also - "New Scientist" April 1, 1995; pp 26-29 "Faster Than What" Newsweek
June 19, 1995 p 67-69
"The speed of light was ten billion times faster at time zero!"
Dr. V.S. Troitskii, Cosmologist at the Radio-physical Research Institute in
Gorky. "Physical Constants and the Evolution of the Universe" Astrophysics
and Space Science , Vol. 139, No. 2, December 1987 pp 389-411.

"A shocking possibility is that the speed of light might change in time
during the life of the universe."
Dr. Joao Magueijo of Imperial College London
[URL=http://www.Sunday-times.co.uk]www.Sunday-times.co.uk[/URL]  12-24-2000