Speed of Light is Constant?

Relativity points out that the mass of an object increases as its speed accelerates, and when it reaches the assumed constant speed of light in a vacuum, its mass become infinite.

Hence, no object or no one can travel beyond the speed of light, or the assumed upper limit of speed. To travel to the nearest star from Earth, the Proxima Centauri of the Alpha Centauri system, which is 4.2 light years away, will take man a lifetime to reach, even with a spaceship with reasonable speed less than the speed of light. So man will forever be a prisoner in his insignificant solar system in the infinite universe.

Once the Earth’s resources are used, the humans, in all probability, will resort to cannibalism again in fulfillment of Jeremiah’s prophecy. And the Earth’s situation will be like that of the people on Easter Island. There is strong evidence that the long and short ears ate each other nearly to the point of extinction. Stuck on this planet and hopeless like the Easter Islanders while the stars beacon far out there. Then what is the purpose and reason for all those countless billions of star systems to be up there? Are those stars just there for nothing? I don’t think so.

If man can see a star, he can reach it. To be able to do it, he has to reorient his thinking and theories. The first step is to modify or replace the theory of relativity with another theory without a finite boundary or finite limiting speed condition, but instead should incorporate infinite possibilities and can range even to eternity.

God is the creator of light and the infinite universe. If relativity is correct, then God is perceivable and finite, both in power and existence. He is limited by His creation because He cannot even go beyond the speed of light, and it will take Him an eternity to cross the universe. Also, all God’s creations would be finite, including the universe. All these contradict God’s infinite power and his unperceivable eternal existence. Incredible contradictions indeed. Thus, relativity also makes believing in God pointless. But is this really so? Consider some of the recent findings in science.

Using the world’s largest telescope, the Keck telescope atop Maura Kea, Hawaii, a team of experimentalists led by John Webb, a professor of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia have observed from their collected data that light from a distant quasar has patterns of light absorption that could not be explained without assuming a change in a basic constant of nature called the fine structure constant, a combination of three other universal constants: (a) the law that electron charge shall not change, (b) the speed of light shall not change or is constant, and (c) Plank’s constant. Paul Davies of Sydney Macquarie University said that the discrepancy could only be explained if there is a change in either (a) or (b). If (b) is correct; that is, the speed of light is constant, then (a) is wrong, which violates the sacrosanct second law of thermodynamics. (The second law of thermodynamics implies that you cannot get something from nothing.) This is unacceptable. So the only alternative is that (a) is correct and (b) is wrong. That is, light is not constant and preserves the second law of thermodynamics. The conclusion is also supported by Davies’ team from data from their studies of black holes. Moreover, Davies said that the variability of the speed of light is due to the possibility that the speed has slowed by time over billions of years.

Light is slowed down in transparent media, such as air, water, glass, plastic, and diamond. The ratio by which it is slowed is called the refractive index of the medium and is always greater than one. This was discovered by Jean Foucault in 1850.

The physics team led by Lene Vestergaard Hau, a researcher at Rowland and Harvard University, used Bose-Einstein condensate to slow laser light down to 38 mph. And the team is getting new lasers in the lab that should enable them to slow the speed of light to 120 ft/hr, and possibly achieve light speed of almost zero.

As shown in the preceding paragraphs, the speed of light in the upper (in a vacuum) and lower (in a medium) limits can change, especially in the upper limit which contradicts the hypothetical assumption in relativity that light speed is constant. By the way, in physics, "the speed of light," in general, means the speed of light in a vacuum. But is there really such a thing as an absolute vacuum in the universe? Vacuum is such an ideal space which in reality does not exist. Aside from gravity, there is always something in there, an unknown medium that no one knows, that decelerates the speed of light. Our knowledge of the infinite universe, comparatively speaking, is less than a dot on this page. The things humans don’t know is still limitless. Thus, humans can be compared to the insignificant microbes under the belly of a carabao who arrogantly think that they are greater than the carabao and who define a relativistic speed for the carabao.

The hypothetical assumption that "light is constant" is the foundation of relativity. Utilizing Michelson-Morley experiment and Lorentz invariance equations, an equation can be formulated and when the assumed constant speed of light "c" is substituted, it is simplified and reduced into the now famous equation E=mc^2. However, if the foundation of anything is wrong and unstable, by time the whole structure will collapse, and so is the theory of relativity.

The discoveries of the team of Australian scientists, though revolutionary, are still FAR SHORT and LESS CONSISTENT with God’s perceivable attributes. Anyway, in the Bible, God is the source of light and dynamic energy. He is vigorous, infinite, and almighty in power. At the instant light emanates from Him, "the light speed is tremendous and infinite." Thus, "the upper limit of the speed of light is infinite, not a finite constant." But "light decelerates, regardless of time, as it traverses the different regions of the universal space, from multi-dimensional superhyperspaces to hyperspaces, then to three-dimensional spaces." Note that scientists and mathematicians formulated the multi-dimensional super string theory without knowing that the Bible writers have written about similar ideas ahead of their time by more than a thousand years. God’s angel span the hyperspaces and the three-dimensional spaces at staggering speed beyond human imagination and multiple times over beyond light speed. Thus, they also contradict the relativistic limitation that nothing can travel beyond the speed of light. Actually, it is also possible for a material particle to have speed greater than the speed of light in a medium. The phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation is a good example. If this particle is faster than light in a medium, there is a possibility that it might be faster than light in a vacuum, assuming that light speed is not constant. Also, the scalar waves travel faster than the speed of light. Nevertheless, space travel to the stars and beyond is implied as granted to man by God to be among the stars when He told Abraham to look up to the heavens and count the stars if he can.

Finally, space travel with speed beyond the speed of light is attainable only if man reorients his thinking and come up with an alternative theory or revise the theory of relativity. He must FIRST accept that "light is NOT constant." SECOND, he must look at things from an infinite point of view, not a finite point of view. THIRD, he must not settle for a finite boundary or a finite limiting speed condition. FOURTH, Newton’s first law of motion which states that "a body at rest remains at rest, and a body in motion remains in motion with CONSTANT velocity along the same straight line unless acted upon by some resultant force" must now be made a corollary instead, and generally RESTATED as "a body at rest remains at rest, and a body in motion remains in motion with INFINITE velocity along the same straight line unless acted upon by some resultant force TO DECELERATE AND CHANGE DIRECTION." And FIFTH, SIXTH, AND SEVENTH are the ones in close quotations in the preceding paragraph. All these seven changes and conditions are still nothing but they are closer in approximation than those ideas arrived at by the Australian team about God’s perceivable attributes as defined in the Bible. If these seven theoretical ideas are backed up by new engineering discoveries, then travel to the stars with speed beyond the speed of light is attainable. But how?