Cosmology: quantum space time not Einsteinian (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Monday, March 30, 2015, 20:42 (3527 days ago) @ David Turell


> > >David: Good point, but 4 minutes over thousands or millions of light years is a tiny percentage of difference. How much would that change the estimates of age through isotopic decay timings?
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> > Tony: Ask a physicist. But, to my way of thinking, if the decay rates are not constant, then we can not say for sure how much they are off, because we have know way of knowing the speed of light over millions and billions of years.
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>Davaid: I still don't think it would matter with a four minute difference. I know you don't like isotope dating, but I think you are straining for an objection. Most physicists accept the dating method as valid.-Most of them except the speed of light as constant too. Just sayin'. And, I am not straining for an objection. There are numerous objections to the method. However, my original point was NOT simply about radiometric dating, but merely to point out that this discovery could have some major reverberations throughout many different disciplines. -What happens to CMBR research, or the search for other planets/stars?

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