Awatmath.1940 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!pcmcgeer Tue Mar 9 15:02:43 1982 variable c Pardon me...I should have reported the variable G statement as conjecture rather than fact. Dirac suggested it, and there has been some recent (circa december 1980) evidence in favour of it. I have seen these results in several places, but unfortuantely th only one that I can remember is in Expanded Universe, which (all due respect to RAH) is not a definitive source. Sorry. As for the conjecture of a variable c, it was suggested here that c is some function of the curvature of spacetime, which, agreed, implies preferred reference frames. A correspondent at pur-ee!purdue!pur-ph wrote privately to say that in fact it was a well-known result of general relativity that light speeds up in the near neighbourhood of a star - which (I think) is precisely what I suggested might be the case. Of course, I might have missed the point entirely. Comments? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.