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DISCUSSION INDEX

We get a lot of emails asking questions about Barry's work. We found many of the questions were repeated, so we have added this page to the website, where questions we receive can be answered, or at least responded to for permanent reference. Please feel free to email us if you do not find an answer or response to your question here.

Note: the terms cDK (speed of light decay), Vc (variable light speed) and VSL (variable speed of light) are used interchangeably in the scientific community.

 

NEW Arp and the Red Shift of Quasars March 2010

NEW Egypt and the Exodus March 2010

NEW Magma and Radioactive Decay April 2010

NEW The Double Slit Experiment April 2010

NEW Question about Wal Thornhill's ideas May 2010

NEW The Primal Dust of the World May 2010

NEW An Expanding Earth? May 2010

NEW The energy diffusion timescale for the Sun May 2010

NEW Non-biogenic petroleum May 2010

NEW Interstellar Water Mystery May 2010

 

SPECIAL

What About the RATE Group? -- August 22, 2002  

responses to questions from the Cosmology Conference Nov. 1, 2003 

Response to questions about "The Christmas Star" DVD

 

EMAILED QUESTIONS

THE HISTORY OF LIGHT SPEED RESEARCH Before 1941

Setterfield's Work
The minimum value of the speed of light
Why is c not measured as changing now?    
    On the Measurement of Time, and the Velocity of Light
Work on light speed by others
    Moffat   
    Albrecht and Magueijo
    Davies
Responses to critical webpages 
Supportive and Explanatory Essays by others
Lambert Dolphin's page of collected relevant links and abstracts

Current Questions 

THE DATA

The data set used in the 1987 Report
Note 
Indications from the data
Oscillations and the data  
Challenges

December, 2009, question and comment on the statistical use of the data

CHANGING LIGHT SPEED PUBLICITY -- and the fine structure constant

VIRTUAL PARTICLES AND THE SPEED OF LIGHT

ZERO POINT ENERGY

What is the ZPE?
Too Big? 
The SED Approach
What is its significance?
The ZPE and electron energy
ZPE and the Atom  
ZPE, the redshift, and an expanding universe
ZPE and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
The Zero Point Energy and the Casimir Force

MASS AND ENERGY

Electromagnetic ramifications
What about Einstein's equation?
Heat output from the sun
Photon Energy
Less Energy?
Radioactive Decay and Mass
Macroscopic and Atomic Mass
Einstein and Relativity

QUANTUM MECHANICS

The Double Slit Experiment

RADIOMETRIC DATING

Link between radiometric dating and lightspeed
Oklo
What about the RATE group?
Isn’t dendrochronology accurate for checking radiocarbon dating?
Change in Decay Rates
Atomic Ages

THE REDSHIFT

What is the redshift?
What does 'quantized' mean?
Is the redshift really quantized?
What are the implications of a quantized redshift?
Discrepant Redshifts
Reactions
Other Explanations?
The Redshift/Lightspeed Connection
A Lumpy Microwave Background?
Question regarding work by the Gentrys 
An Accelerating Expansion of the Universe?   
The Redshift, ZPE, and Relativity
Redshift and Color
The Lightspeed/Redshift Curve
The Lightspeed Curve and the Oscillation
Wikipedia and the Red Shift

ASTRONOMICAL DISCUSSION

A Static Universe?
Light from distant stars
Missing Mass and Dark Matter?
Black Holes
Quasars and Pulsars
Pulsars
The Fine Structure Constant
Supernovas
    1987A
    1997ff
Doppler Shift
Slow motion effects?
What About the Big Bang?
Wandering Planets?
Fuzzy Space? 
Massive Bombardment?
Has Dark Matter Been Proven?
Permittivity and Permeability of Space
Solar Activity
Stellar Brightness and the Tolman Test
Arp and the Red Shift of Quasars
Question about Wal Thornhill's ideas
The energy diffusion timescale for the Sun
Interstellar Water Mystery

ATOMIC CONSTANTS

Variable Constants 

BIBLICAL DISCUSSION

Biblical Chronology
Did lightspeed start to decline at the time of the Fall?
Lightspeed at the time of Noah
The Long Day of Joshua
LXX Question  
The Council of Jamnia
Where was the Tower of Babel?
A Question about Timeline changes
Dividing Between the Light and the Darkness
Egypt and the Exodus
The Primal Dust of the World

GEOLOGY QUESTIONS

Fossils on the Himalayas?
What About the White Cliffs of Dover?
Magma and Radioactive Decay
An Expanding Earth?
Non-biogenic petroleum


IMPLICATIONS FOR AGE OF THE EARTH

WHAT ABOUT GRAVITY?  

Mass, Gravity, and Atomic Clocks
Is Gravity Light Speed Limited?
The Effect of Gravity on Light
Does Gravity Decay?


OTHER QUESTIONS

The Speed of Light
The "missing helium" problem
Faster c and heat output
Biological processes
Neutrons and Cosmic Rays
Does the Universe Show False Maturity?
Future possibilities
Hydrogen spectral lines
A Series of Questions from One Correspondent
Light and Subatomic Particles
Quartz Clocks 
Varying Light Speed, Relativity, and Maxwell's Equations
Question about tachyons
Calculating Atomic vs. Orbital Time
Global Warming and the "Carbon threat"

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