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Note on Varying Speed of Light Cosmologies

George F R Ellis

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Abstract

The various requirements on a consistent varying speed of light (`VSL') theory are surveyed, giving a short check-list of issues that should be satisfactorily handled by such theories.

arXiv comments
6 pages; to appear in the GRG Journal
Journal reference
Gen.Rel.Grav.39:511-520,2007
DOI
doi:10.1007/s10714-007-0396-4
Subjects
astro-phAstrophysics

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  1. Mass and angular momentum, left ambiguous by Einstein, get defined 1 comment

    • 1/2 tl;dr: coincident-events first, then labels (coordinates). [Einstein 1916, p.117 [2] although I remembered to look there only after writing all of the below]. One-way speed of light arguments are in danger of being coordinates-first, and thus insufficiently general for…

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  2. Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting 1 comment

    • Let's flip the question and ask what happens if we let the value of c depend on the location in spacetime. Ellis provides a "short checklist of issues that should be satisfactorily handled by" theories that have a value of c that depends on location in spacetime.…

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