Barry Setterfield

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Barry Setterfield is a proponent behind the idea of c-decay, or the proposition that the speed of light was faster in the past and has been degrading ever since.

Setterfield is one of a gaggle of proposers of fanciful theories of varying speeds of light - including Joao Magueijo [1], Victor S Troitskii [2], JW Moffat [3], John D Barrow [4] and John Webb [5].

Like all good preachers of woo, he carefully tailors his ideas to try and avoid being verifiable or falsifiable. He claims that the decay curve just recently flat-lined. It was still decaying, honest, but we just missed it. Unfortunately for him, it has been demonstrated to be false.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=Joao+Magueijo&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search
  2. http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=VS+Troitskii&btnG=Search
  3. http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=J+Moffat&btnG=Search
  4. [http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enAU291AU303&q=John%20D%20Barrow&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws
  5. http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=John%20Webb+UNSW&btnG=Search
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