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Originally Posted by HarryT
Well, with all due respect, what you've done so far is not science, so perhaps that's why nobody's taken you seriously.
What you need to do is to say "IF my theory is correct, THEN the result would be..." ie, use your theory to make a prediction that is experimentally testable, and then propose an experiment to test it. That is science.
The problem you'll face is that there are centuries of experiments which appear to indicate that the speed of light in vacuo is, in fact, constant. Among the simplest is something that you can do with any small telescope - time the mutual events of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter. The four major satellites of Jupiter all orbit in the plane of the planet's equator and are subject to a complex and ever-changing pattern of eclipses, occulations, transits of their shadows across the face of the planet, etc. These events can be easily predicted, but the time that we see them occur on Earth depends on long it takes the light to travel from Jupiter to us, which depends in turn on how far away Jupiter is from the Earth, something that's constantly changing as Jupiter and the Earth move in their respective orbits. Demonstrate convincingly that these events are not being seen "on schedule" due to a variable speed of light, and you've won a Nobel Prize for Physics.
So really, Ralph, the ball's entirely in your court. If you think that Maxwell's equations are incorrect, make an experimentally verifiable prediction.
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With all due respect, I don't have a theory. I merely note that the mathematics of Maxwell's equations boundary conditions
allow the possibility of
C not being invariant. I also note that historically, the close correlation between Maxwell's boundary condition calculation of
C and the measured value of
C was considered a fact in favor of relativity (prior to the 1919 eclipse experiment).
I fully note that the natural universal background (permeability and permittivity) are constant. I merely note that since 1999, we have figured out a way to alter the permeability and permittivity artificially. Can this have an effect on
C? The mathematics imply it. Should they not be tested? No matter what the experiment revealed, the result would be interesting.
If I had a few million on the side, I'd fund the experiment. as it is, I merely note it.
You know, from 1800 to 1895, everybody was
certain light was a wave. It has been experimentally proven, again and again...