[Fwd: Joy of discussion]

[Edmund Storms]

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I have a few question as a simple observer of things I know little about. 
If the speed of light changed, would not the speed of the electron around
the nucleus also change?  Would not the rate of reactions within nature
and within the body not change in proportion?  In other words, would
Methuselah have aged just as fast?  In fact, how would anyone know
that the speed of light had changed if all things that move change in proportion,
as they must?   Suppose, as many people are proposing, that another
faster mechanism exists for communication.  Would not the use of this
method invalidate the conclusions about time that the speed of light implies? 
Just a few questions to keep you thinking.
Ed
Frederick Sparber wrote:
 Richard Macaulay
wrote: "My view.. that the
continents could not have drifted " apart" since the east and west side
of land masses " fit". The discussion reached a point of maturity with
each "cutting the other some slack" whereas he could grant me slack that
the earth could have expanded .. but the additional water required to fill
the oceans would need to come from a close approach by Mars allowing the
water to be  " stripped"." Going by the scriptures,
Richard: "When Methuselah had reached the great age of one hundred
and eighty-seven years he became the father of Lamech. Following this he
lived the remarkable term of seven hundred and eighty-two years, which
makes his age at his death nine hundred and sixty-nine years. It follows
thus that his death occurred in the year of the Deluge." I interpret
this as a change in lightspeed: E = mc^2 or m = E/c^2 suggesting that
the lightspeed in the solar system at the time of Methuselahwas about 3.3 
times it's present value , hence the mass of the earth was 1/10th of what
it is now, andwas zipping around the sun ten times as fast as the present
value. Conservation of mass and energyis thus satisfied: Orbital Kinetic
Energy = 1/2 mv^2, Rotational energy = 1/2 Iw^2 where I is the moment of
inertiaof a rotating sphere 2/5 MR^2, w =2(pi)/t. This would make
old man Methuselah about 19 (of our years) when he fathered Lamech and
96+ when he went yonder. Note the decreasing ages of his progeny as
the speed of light decreased.  :-) http://www.earth-history.com/Generation.htm  Frederick


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