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| − | The speed of light is not arbitrary, as the creationists would have us believe. It is the velocity at which the amount of energy it would take to accelerate | + | The speed of light is not arbitrary, as the creationists would have us believe. It is the velocity at which the amount of energy it would take to accelerate a massive object to any greater speed becomes infinite. Since photons have no mass, they are the only objects in the universe that can travel at this speed. This means that when creationists say that the speed of light has changed they are arguing that in the past accelerating an object to a certain speed took less energy then it would today. According to them, the speed of light was over a million times faster in creation week then it currently is. This is obviously absurd. To put it in perspective, if the energy necessary to accelerate an object were only 1/1,000,000 of what it is today, then a normal person could have thrown a rock dozens of times faster than the speed of sound. |
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 04:02, 18 August 2009
This topic is a pseudoscience, and is not accepted by the scientific community as a valid discipline.
Although it may use scientific terminology, it does not use scientific methodology.
Remember: just because it sounds right doesn't mean it's actually right.
C-decay theory is a pseudoscientific creationist cosmology put forward by cdesign proponentsists. It attempts to solve the Starlight Problem by claiming that the speed of light in a vacuum was faster in the past and has since decayed to the value we observe it to be today.[1]
Since the development of electronic digital counters and pulsed lasers, it has been possible to measure the speed of light in the laboratory with extraordinary precision. Even if the speed of light reached the proximity of its final value decades ago, there would be enough residual decay as the value reached its limit asymptotically for our modern apparatus to detect. There is none, forcing the proponents of the theory to toss out the exponential decay which governs nearly every phenomenon in the universe in favor of wild trigonometric functions they found by brute force curve-fitting, without an underlying explanation of "why".
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Effects on acceleration
The speed of light is not arbitrary, as the creationists would have us believe. It is the velocity at which the amount of energy it would take to accelerate a massive object to any greater speed becomes infinite. Since photons have no mass, they are the only objects in the universe that can travel at this speed. This means that when creationists say that the speed of light has changed they are arguing that in the past accelerating an object to a certain speed took less energy then it would today. According to them, the speed of light was over a million times faster in creation week then it currently is. This is obviously absurd. To put it in perspective, if the energy necessary to accelerate an object were only 1/1,000,000 of what it is today, then a normal person could have thrown a rock dozens of times faster than the speed of sound.