Starlight

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New Scientist is a popularist rag. The others are, indeed, peer reviewed.

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Clayton, M. and Moffat, J., Dynamical mechanism for varying light velocity as a solution to cosmological problems, Physics Letters B460(3—4):263—270, 1999

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I've looked through this paper, and realised I lack the background in physics to properly understand it, however, if my reading is correct they are proposing only that the speed of light can be violated under extreme conditions such as those that existed immediately post the big bang. They do not propose a faster speed of light in the past; but rather that the speed of light is different under certain circumstance. This does not solve the starlight problem for Creationists.

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Albrecht, A. and Magueijo, J., Time varying speed of light as a solution to cosmological puzzles, Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology) 59(4):043516-1—043516-13, 1999

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Appears to be available here (.pdf). Again if you read the paper you'll find that it refers only to the speed of light in the very early universe, before the formation of stars. This is not a solution ot the starlight problem for Creationists.Also, as a final note, both of the these papers (and a few others) on the possible variation of the speed of light are highly speculative: there is no empirical evidence in support of their position.

That's interesting; if it's not too complicated to explain, why is that?