In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 16 Oct 2015 22:16:23 -0400: Hi, [snip] Even a change in the speed of light could be just that, a change in the speed of light, and may not mean that the rate of flow of time has changed.
>Atomic clocks count time through the counting of atomic vibrations. In the >EMdrive experiments, laser beams that when through certain zones in the >resonant cavity showed faster than light behavior. > >see > >http://www.techtimes.com/articles/49360/20150428/nasa-may-have-accidentally-discovered-faster-than-light-travel.htm > >"NASA is currently studying the technology for future applications, but few >expected anything like this to happen: according to a post over at the NASA >Space Flight forums ><http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36313.1860>, when a team >of researchers fired lasers into the resonance chamber, the particles were >accelerated to astronomical speeds...with some moving even faster than the >speed of light." > >On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:40 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 16 Oct 2015 21:22:09 -0400: >> Hi, >> [snip] >> >This experiment should be viewed through the lenz of our experience with >> >the increase in the decay rate of radioactive isotopes. I have referenced >> >many times here the experiment where U232 half life was decreased from 69 >> >years to 6 microseconds. >> >> A change in half-life doesn't necessarily mean a change in the rate of >> flow of >> time. It could just be exactly what if appears to be, a change in >> half-life. Now >> if you had multiple different isotopes all together, and their half lives >> all >> changed to the same degree e.g. all decreased by a factor of 10, then you >> might >> have evidence of a change in the rate of flow of time. Even better would be >> several clocks that relied on physically different mechanisms to measure >> the >> flow of time, all changing by the same amount. >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> >> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >> >> Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
