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For the majority of the
established
scientists, the results of the CTH summarized in Fig. 2 will at least
be
provoking, if not even unacceptable. But if we have a look at the
literature
of the past decades, we will find that, surprisingly, some of the
statements
presented here are not totally new altogether. There is a number of
interesting
observations and theoretical deliberations whose results are identical
with those of the CTH. But the essential difference is, the CTH
presents
a theoretical model that is consistent within itself, whereas the
results
which can sporadically be found in the literature mostly are focussed
on
single phenomena.
Mainly the fact, the CTH can provide
surprising solutions for such fundamental problems as the mystery of
the
cosmological constant and for the unification of the natural forces,
for
which the established physics has not even the trace of an approach to
a
scientifically founded solution, should be reason enough to study it
closely.
In the following, the various
results
of the CTH are explained and compared with the present state of
knowledge.
3.1 The universe expands
at the speed of light
(3)
This statement surely is the most
provoking of the CTH. But just this supplies the key opening the door
to
a new time term – the cosmic time [7]. Regarding it unreflected,
relation
(3) inferes with the Einstein axiom, the speed of light is a universal
natural constant. But in order to judge the meaning of this axiom, we
first
must clarify the term „natural constant“. By this, we mean a
physical
value that only can be found empirically, i. e. by
measurement,
and not by means of a theory.
By choosing a suitable time
parameter,
the light speed formulated in (3) can be brought into accordance with
this
definition or, as Einstein expressed [5], p. 30:
“One can, for the completion
of the time definition, use the principle of the constancy of the
vacuum
light speed.”
In order to measure the light speed
formulated in (3) always as a constant value, the beat of time must
have
been faster in the past and must become slower in the future, according
to the relation D t
~ t 1/3 or, resp.,
c D t
= const. (4)
It is interesting, a light speed
varying with time, lately also is being taken into consideration by
other
scientists.
Andreas Albrecht from the
University of California in Davis, John Barrow from the Cambridge
University
and Joao Magueijo from the Imperial College in London, lately have
introduced
the VSL Theory (varying speed- of- light theory), which also postulates
a light speed decreasing with time. [8], p. 42:
„.... the most promising and
provoking alternative to the inflation model well may be the theory of
the variable light speed, or VSL theory."
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