Speed of light? [was Re: GPL vs BSD Licence]

Vijay Kaul vkaul at ma.rr.com
Tue Nov 2 04:53:53 PST 2004


On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 21:45:16 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt  
<tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad at stop.mail-abuse.org]
>> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 3:32 PM
>> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>> Cc: chat at freebsd.org
>> Subject: RE: GPL vs BSD Licence
>>
>>
>> At 3:05 PM -0800 2004-10-31, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>

<-snip->

> I say the speed of light is so-and-so many miles per second well, I'm  
> right, right?  No.  It depends on how strong any gravitational
> fields happen to be that are near what I'm observing.  In short,  
> contextual understanding.

<-snip->

IANAPhysicist but, isn't the speed of light in a vacuum constant? Well, it  
may be being actively debated by cosmologists attempting to explain the  
origins of the universe; but, VSL aside... the speed of light is  
2.998something x10^8 m/s in vacuum.

Sorry, but this is chat, and I figured I ask.

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