Speed of Light Inconstant?

DHR writes "Australian scientists have discovered that light isn't quite as fast as it used to be." We've done previous stories on these findings. Those of you with subscriptions to Nature can read the actual paper, the rest of us will just have to suffer.

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Readers Digest of Science Magazines

[puto]

Jeez, nothing reported in that digital rag is exactly new. I knew most of those facts at the ripe old age of 10.

The article reads like a Readers Digest condensed version of the theory of relativity. Was it a slow day so he broke out a 1979 Geographic World Book and scammed their article?

"Motion, it turns out, slows time - one of the funny effects of the law of relativity. At low speeds, the effect is slight and makes no difference to our daily lives."

I learned this in the Superman flick when the Big S flew around the earth to save his sweetheart. Then went to the libray and read up on it.

Too many people in the academic world feel they must publish. Fine, do it, but don't rehash. Show me something new, groundbreaking.

BORED with the scientific community as of late.

Puto

Re:ObTrek Reference

[quintessent]

Yeah. I was quite amused at some of the things the Voyager team found in the alpha quadrant. A space probe from present day Earth. Based on how far voyager was from home, it seems it had been drifting at many times the speed of light.