Science, Creation & EvolutionThe Biochemical Challenge to EvolutionJovaro, you are partly right here. There is a difference between atomic and macroscopic mass. Einstein's equation has proven true on the microscopic scale, but not on the macroscopic scale. However, the data show that c has changed dramatically in the past and may still be changing now. The curve of change appears to be the same as the redshift curve: http://www.setterfield.org/cdkcurve.html The math demonstrating these curves to be the same can be found here: http://www.journaloftheoretics.com/Link ... Setter.pdf The fact that h and m have both been shown as changing in correlation to c is further evidence that c is not a constant. Aineo wrote This is not actually right. Light photons have no mass. While both the speed of light and the gain in mass of electrons happen due to the same cause, they are not in a cause and effect relationship themselves. Light speed has slowed due to the increase of something called 'virtual particles.' In light of Einstein's famous equation, we know that energy and mass are interchangeable on an atomic scale. In fact, there are some very interesting articles in the past twenty years or so which are arguing that there really is no such thing as mass per se, but that electrons and other subatomic particles are actually 'point charges'. Whethere or not this is true, an increase in time of the Zero Point Energy (as measured by Planck's Constant) also means an increase in the number of electron-size particles, called virtual particles, in any given volume of space at any given time. These particle pairs (negative and positive) flash into and out of existence incredibly rapidly. But when a photon of light hits one it is absorbed just as though it had hit the wall of the room you are in. However, unlike the wall, that virtual particle will flash out of existence almost immediately and thus release that photon to continue its trip at the same speed at which it originally started. In other words, the light photon gives up no energy, but the time it took to be absorbed and then re-emitted by the virtual particle did cause an ever-so-slight delay in its trip. The more virtual particles there are in its path, therefore, the longer it will take it to arrive at its destination. So, in a funny way, the speed of light has never slowed (although its speed between virtual particles is incredibly faster than we actually measure the speed of light as being), but through time it has required longer and longer to reach its destination due to the increasing number of virtual particles in existence at any one time -- and they are a result of the increase in the Zero Point Energy in space. This Zero Point Energy is also the cause of the gain in mass of electrons over time. The higher the ZPE, the more the electrons get battered around (the word for this is 'zitterbewegung') and thus the more space they occupy in their journies about the nucleus. Their charge does not change, but they are jittering more, and thus taking up more space, which is translated by our measurement devices as having greater mass. |
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