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Monday, June 30, 2014

Gravitational potential and speed of light

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Remnant of Supernova 1987A seen in light of very different wavelengths. ALMA data (in red) shows newly formed dust in the centre of the remnant. Hubble (in green) and Chandra (in blue) data show the expanding shock wave. Credit: ALMA/NASA

(Phys.org) —Physicist James Franson of the University of Maryland has captured the attention of the physics community by posting an article to the peer-reviewed New Journal of Physics in which he claims to have found evidence that suggests the speed of light as described by the theory of general relativity, is actually slower than has been thought.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-physicist-slower-thought.html#jCp


The paper is available in IOP website.

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