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Debunking Setterfields Speed of Light Model

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03-09-2012 10:54 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by foreveryoung
03-08-2012 11:42 AM

How do you get off of inifinite speed?
Barry Setterfield claims that c (the speed of light) was infinite at the beginning of the universe and has been gradually slowing down ever since.
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I haven't read any of the papers, but this line confused me. If it was infinite at some time, it seems impossible for it to have slowed down to less than infinite.
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For example, infinite - 1 = infinite. Infinite * .5 = infinite
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I don't know of any math that could get you off of infinite speed once you're on it. So, either he calculated a very high rate of speed that is being erroneously labelled "inifinite" or his math fails at this very simple level...or I'm missing something (an eminitely probable proposition).
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03-12-2012 10:47 AM 		Reply to: Message 18 by NoNukes
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Re: How do you get off of inifinite speed?
I don't find this particular line of reasoning condemning of Setterfield's work.
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As I said, I haven't read Setterfield's work, I was merely confused on the point I raised, namely, how do you decrease from infinite speed?
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If it's really just an artifact of extrapolating back to time zero with a graphical asymptote, then I guess I can let it go.
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