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> “It is worth recalling that Ellis & Uzan (2005) gave a sobering review of serious conceptual problems one faces while trying to change the status of c in phys
by fergbrain 7y ago
> “It is worth recalling that Ellis & Uzan (2005) gave a sobering review of serious conceptual problems one faces while trying to change the status of c in physics. In particular, they stressed that it is usually not consistent to allow a constant to vary in an equation that has been derived from a variational principle under the hypothesis of this quantity being constant. Therefore, one needs to go back to the Lagrangian and derive new equations after having replaced the constant by a dynamical field.”
The math is a bit out of my depth...did they go back to the Lagrangian and derive new equations after having replaced the constant by a dynamical field?
- g82918 7y agoPeople have at least once though the citation escapes me, it was 2006ish. And it could be found in agreement with observation. Not that I believe in it.
- eesmith 7y agoI missed this the first time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light (I used Google Scholar to find that first reference). There are about a dozen references in the 2006ish timeframe.