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False claims
The dogma is that the speed of light travels at a maximum velocity of 186.000 miles per second in vacuo, or only in a vacuum. No vacuum exists anywhere in the universe, so this postulate is false. In reality light travels at different speeds depending on the medium and this upends Relativity and most of modern science. Since we cannot measure anything in a vacuum the claim that there is an upper end to the speed of light is mere speculation. It might be correct, but it could also be completely erroneous and could well vary over time.
It needs to be stated that light is independent of its source and therefore light waves require no medium for their propagation. Light emission is premised on electrons and electrical energy. Light is basically a wave in an electromagnetic field (Faraday, Maxwell), and when this is propagated through a medium (air, water, an object), its speed will vary in accordance with the properties of that medium.
We also know that all wave speeds, like object speeds, must be measured relative to some object on which points A and B can be specified or mapped out. This is called a frame of reference (or a grid map). We can only measure light speed relative to an object on a grid (hence points A and B representing starting and ending points or 2 objects relative to each other).
Logically we cannot measure the speed of light in a vacuum since reference frames and objects don’t exist in vacuo. The speed of light in a vacuum is thereby a theory devoid of meaning. It should also be noted that many scientists don’t believe that the speed of light can even be measured.
“But several physicists have pointed out that while relativity assumes the vacuum speed of light is a universal constant, it also shows the speed can never be measured. Specifically, relativity forbids you from measuring the time it takes light to travel from point A to point B. To measure the speed of light in one direction, you'd need a synchronized stopwatch at each end, but relative motion affects the rate of your clocks relative to the speed of light.” (Koberlein, 2021)
More on this quote below.
We should also emphasise that measuring speed and time is entirely a human invention. It is our conceptions of motion and time which allow calculations of velocity and duration. Time does not exist outside of human consciousness. Therefore time can never be merged with space into a new spatial-duration dimension. More here
There is a long list of experiments which have disproven Relativity, which was conceived as an attempt to explain why mechanical experiments could not prove a moving, or even a rotating Earth. These are not discussed, taught, and are largely unknown. One such experiment which the Relativists cannot answer is that of the French physicist Georges Sagnac, and his 1913 interferometer calculations. ‘Modern science’ simply brushes Sagnac under the carpet as they do with any replicable experimentation which disproves Special Relativity. Few Phd’s in Physics have ever heard of Georges Sagnac.
Sagnac was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Paris. He was a Copernican and Sun worshipper. Sagnac is never taught in schools, yet in his day he enjoyed renown. Sagnac assisted Pierre Curie in determining the properties of radium and the discovery of secondary X-rays and various other optical effects. He was part of the scientific establishment and a contemporary of one of France’s top physicists, the Catholic Pierre Duhem, who had the temerity to challenge the ‘consensus’ and whose Catholicism offended the small group of atheists that ran French ‘science’. Duhem was ostracized and sent to the University of Bordeaux and denied access to materials. Free speech, open science and all that. Sagnac suffered no such fate, he was part of ‘The Science’ until he began to question Relativity. More here
The speed of light is a problem for ‘The Science’. If the speed of light is inconstant in space and time, the entire edifice of modern cosmology including ‘Relativity’ is destroyed. Other posts in this substack have adumbrated the issues with the speed of light in the context of what is wrong with modern physics and cosmology. To further understand the importance of this issue we will provide 3 posts: a brief history of the speed of light, the ignored and wrongly vilified Sagnac experiment, and proofs and support as to why the speed of light dogma is incorrect, including personal experiments.
Through many years of study and experimentation with the speed of light, it is clear that the ‘settled consensus’ that the speed of light is ~186.000 miles per second in a vacuum is simply wrong. One obvious reason is that space is not a vacuum but full of material including radiation, rays, neutrinos, positrons, quantum fluctuations and other matter. No vacuum exists within the universe. Einsteins’ own General Relativity assumes an ether. Light speed obviously varies by medium including in space and in the opinion of many cannot even be measured. More here