On Dec 27, 8:57*am, Pentcho Valev wrote:
On Dec 26, 10:34*am, Pentcho Valev wrote:

Note the number of the panicky authors:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/...810.3475v1.pdf
"Albert Einstein’s postulate "that light is always propagated in empty
space with a definite velocity c which is independent of the state of
motion of the emitting body" [1] is one of the pillars of modern
physics. Modification of this postulate would have far-reaching
consequences for our understanding of nature, it is therefore
important
to constantly improve the verification of its validity. Particularly
in the past few decades, a possible energy dependence of the speed of
light has been predicted in the framework of quantum gravity models
[2, 3, 4] and effective field theory [5], leading to deviations from
this postulate (for reviews see [6, 7, 8])."

The "far-reaching consequences":

Albert Einstein: "If the speed of light is the least bit affected by
the speed of the light source, then my whole theory of relativity and
theory of gravity is false."

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/pdf...09145525ca.pdf
Albert Einstein: "I consider it entirely possible that physics cannot
be based upon the field concept, that is on continuous structures.
Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air, including the
theory of gravitation, but also nothing of the rest of contemporary
physics."

Einsteiniana' hypnotists trying to both camouflage the problem and
calm the panic (note the conversion of the dangerous "frequency-
dependent speed of light" into the toothless "time-dependent speed of
light":

http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0264-9...20_202002.html
Joao Magueijo: "In spite of the strong reactions they elicit [8–10],
VSL theories may be nothing more offensive than non-trivial
realizations of the Lorentz group......The cosmological redshift acts
to convert a frequency-dependent speed of light into a time-dependent
speed of light. This idea was already recognized in [21], in a
different guise. If the speed of massless particles increases with
energy, then the fact that the 'average particle' has a higher energy
in the early universe means that the 'ambient' speed of light is also
higher."

Analogous panic in 2001 (godfathers still did not know that Joao
Magueijo's "time-dependent speed of light" was toothless):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/519406/posts
"A GROUP of astronomers and cosmologists has warned that the laws
thought to govern the universe, including Albert Einstein's theory of
relativity, must be rewritten. The group, which includes Professor
Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, say such
laws may only work for our universe but not in others that are now
also thought to exist. "It is becoming increasingly likely that the
rules we had thought were fundamental through time and space are
actually just bylaws for our bit of it," said Rees, whose new book,
Our Cosmic Habitat, is published next month. "Creation is emerging as
even stranger than we thought." Among the ideas facing revision is
Einstein's belief that the speed of light must always be the same -
186,000 miles a second in a vacuum. There is growing evidence that
light moved much faster during the early stages of our universe. Rees,
Hawking and others are so concerned at the impact of such ideas that
they recently organised a private conference in Cambridge for more
than 30 leading cosmologists."

Pentcho Valev