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We get a lot of emails asking questions about Barry's work. We found many of the questions were repeated, so we have added this page to the website, where questions we receive can be answered, or at least responded to for permanent reference. Please feel free to email us if you do not find an answer or response to your question here.

Note: the terms cDK (speed of light decay), Vc (variable light speed) and VSL (variable speed of light) are used interchangeably in the scientific community.

Emailed question categories below:

A few special responses

Setterfield Light Speed Research
The Data
Changing Light Speed publicity and the fine structure constant
Virtual Particles and the Speed of Light
Zero Point Energy
Mass and Energy
Plasma Physics
Quantum Mechanics
Radiometric Dating
The Red Shift
Astronomical
Atomic Constants
Biblical Discussion
Geology
Implications for the Age of the Earth
Gravity
Other questions
Graphs and the Speed of Light curve

 

SPECIAL

Gravitational Wave Announcement -- 2/16; updated Feb. 17

In Response to Hartnett's Article -- 2/16
Further Response to Hartnett: Gravitational Waves and Problems -- 5/16
The LIGO Petition -- 8/16

"Common Sense Science" -- electrons and atoms
Geocentrism
Open Letter to Carl Wieland
The Behavior of Electrons
How can you extrapolate so much from only 300 years' data?
Questions about John Hartnett's book, Starlight, Time and the New Physics
responses to questions from the Cosmology Conference Nov. 1, 2003 
Response to questions about "The Christmas Star" DVD
Technical notes on "The Christmas Star"
Noah's Ark and Mt. Ararat

The Timing of the Rapture (February, 2024)

 

EMAILED QUESTIONS

SETTERFIELD LIGHT SPEED RESEARCH

Introduction
Before 1941
Setterfield's Work
Other Physical Processes if c is not constant
Are changes in light speed real?
Why is c not measured as changing now?
On the Measurement of Time, and the Velocity of Light
Regarding Work on light speed by some others
-- Moffat
-- Albrecht and Magueijo
-- Davies
Supportive and Explanatory Essays by others
Lambert Dolphin's page of collected relevant links and abstracts
Does current technology change the results?
The Attitude as of 2011

THE DATA

The data set used in the 1987 Report
Note 
Indications from the data
Oscillations and the data  
Challenges
Question and comment on the statistical use of the data
Time and length standards and the speed of light
2015: Continuing Data?

CHANGING LIGHT SPEED PUBLICITY -- and the fine structure constant

VIRTUAL PARTICLES AND THE SPEED OF LIGHT

original series of questions
distant starlight problem

ZERO POINT ENERGY

What is the ZPE?
Too Big? 
The SED Approach
What is its significance?
The ZPE and electron energy
ZPE and the Atom  
Additional on the ZPE Effects on the Atom
ZPE, the redshift, and an expanding universe
ZPE and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
The Zero Point Energy and the Casimir Force
Different Concepts of the ZPE?
Some Questions from Belgium
The Rubber Band Analogy
The ZPE and nerve transmission rate
ZPE and Metals Through Time
ZPE and the speed of light
Do X-rays and Gamma rays in the ZPE hurt us?
Oscillation in ZPE related quantities

MASS AND ENERGY

Electromagnetic ramifications
What about Einstein's equation?
Heat output from the sun
Photon Energy
Less Energy?
Radioactive Decay and Mass
Macroscopic and Atomic Mass
Einstein and Relativity
Relativity: Mass and Time
Marklund Convection
Evidence for Dark Matter
Where Did All the Energy Go?

PLASMA PHYSICS

questions regarding the Wikipedia article

QUANTUM MECHANICS

The Double Slit Experiment
Quantum Mechanics, Electrodynamic Mechanics, and the Zero Point Energy
What is the Zeeman Effect?
Sub-Atomic Particles
Quantum Entanglement

RADIOMETRIC DATING

Link between radiometric dating and lightspeed
Oklo
What about the RATE group?
Isn’t dendrochronology accurate for checking radiocarbon dating?
Change in Decay Rates
Atomic Ages
Cesium 133
Oldest Living Tree?

THE REDSHIFT

What is the redshift?
What does 'quantized' mean?
Is the redshift really quantized?
What are the implications of a quantized redshift?
Discrepant Redshifts
Reactions
Other Explanations?
The Redshift/Lightspeed Connection
A Lumpy Microwave Background?
Question regarding work by the Gentrys 
An Accelerating Expansion of the Universe?   
The Redshift, ZPE, and Relativity
Redshift and Color
The Lightspeed/Redshift Curve
The Lightspeed Curve and the Oscillation
Wikipedia and the Red Shift
Blue Shifts
Did Adam See Things More Red?
Recent Developments? (Nov. 2015)
Refractive Lensing?

ASTRONOMICAL DISCUSSION

A Static Universe?
Is the Universe Static or Expanding?
Light from distant stars
Missing Mass and Dark Matter?
More on Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Black Holes
Quasars and Pulsars
Pulsars
Pulsars and Problems
The Fine Structure Constant
Supernovas
    1987A
    1997ff
Doppler Shift
Slow motion effects?
What About the Big Bang?
Wandering Planets?
Fuzzy Space? 
Massive Bombardment?
Has Dark Matter Been Proven?
Particle-Wave Duality
Permittivity and Permeability of Space
Solar Activity
Stellar Brightness and the Tolman Test
Arp and the Red Shift of Quasars
Question about Wal Thornhill's ideas
The energy diffusion timescale for the Sun
Interstellar Water Mystery
CMBR and the Big Bang
What is the CMBR?
Supernovas in the Milky Way Galaxy
Distant Starlight and a Talk Origins article answered
A Fractal Universe?
Orbital Periods of Stars
Electrostatic Attraction
Cosmic Ripples from the Birth of the Universe?
Planet X
Pole Star and Axis Tilt
When is Virgo visible?
The Big Bang and Star Formation
Erratic Star
Black HolesArp and the Red Shift
Arp and the Red Shift
How are Star Distances Measured?
Evidence for an Expanding Universe
Crater Questions

ATOMIC CONSTANTS

Variation by location?
Variable Constants
Changing ratios?
Measuring atomic masses and h

BIBLICAL DISCUSSION

Biblical Chronology
Did lightspeed start to decline at the time of the Fall?
Lightspeed at the time of Noah
The Long Day of Joshua
LXX Question  
The Council of Jamnia
Where was the Tower of Babel?
A Question about Timeline changes
Dividing Between the Light and the Darkness
Egypt and the Exodus
The Primal Dust of the World
Joshua's Long Day
Where were the Garden of Eden and the Exodus Crossing?
Changing Atomic time to Orbital Time
Geologially, when did the Ark land?
Would Adam and Eve have been 'toast'?
The meaning of "Malachi"
A Timeline Question
Research and the Age of the Earth
Skara Brae
Pascal's Wager
Methuselah and the Septuagint
The Availability of Ancient Texts
The Noahide Laws
Revelation 11
Is the Jewish Date for Creation Correct?
Do You Agree With Schroeder?
Star Formation
Ascension and Pentecost
Request to Rebuild the Temple
Roman and Parthian Wars
Question on Revelation 13:18 [the number of the beast]

GEOLOGY QUESTIONS

A Rock and Fossil Summary

Fossils on the Himalayas?
What About the White Cliffs of Dover?
Magma and Radioactive Decay
An Expanding Earth?
Non-biogenic petroleum
Where Does Oil Come From?
A Complete Geologic Column?
The Rockies and the Appalachians
The Flood and the Strata
The Last Ice Age
Salt Deposits and the Flood
Salt Dome Analysis
Carboniferous Coal Measures
New Zealand Geology
What About Gentet's CCC Model?
Dinosaur Footprints in Australia
A Flat Earth?
The La Brea Tar Pits


IMPLICATIONS FOR AGE OF THE EARTH

What about the Calculations?
An equation in "plain English"
A contradiction in the timeline?

WHAT ABOUT GRAVITY?  

Mass, Gravity, and Atomic Clocks
Is Gravity Light Speed Limited?
The Effect of Gravity on Light
Does Gravity Decay?
Is Gravity of Electromagnetic Origin?
Gravity and Dinosaurs
Gravitational Waves
Was it just noise?
Gravity and the ZPE
The Speed of Gravity


OTHER QUESTIONS

The Speed of Light
The "missing helium" problem
Response to the RATE report
More on the helium problem
Faster c and heat output
Biological processes
Neutrons and Cosmic Rays
Does the Universe Show False Maturity?
Future possibilities
Hydrogen spectral lines
A Series of Questions from One Correspondent
Light and Subatomic Particles
Quartz Clocks 
Varying Light Speed, Relativity, and Maxwell's Equations
Question about tachyons
Calculating Atomic vs. Orbital Time
Global Warming and the "Carbon threat"
More on climate change, 11/19
What About Giganism in the Fossil Record?
Is the sun responsible for changes in radio decay rates?
Sunspots, solar activity and weather
Time and Entropy
Bradley's Measurements Questioned
Has the Length of a Year Changed?
The Large Hadron Collider
The Higgs-Boson
Non-orbiting electrons?
Gravity, Light and Time
The Roger Shawyer EM Drive engine
Speed of Light and Seismic Activity
Vacuum Decay?
Time for Crystal Formation
Questions About CERN
Origin of our Magnetic Field

GRAPHS

THE SPEED OF LIGHT CURVE

 

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