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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:17:26
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From: "Rik Strobbe" <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be>
Subject: Re: LF: RE PICs and DDS etc.
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To avoid panic amongst QRS users : the next version will compensate for the
changing value of light speed when calculating the length of a dot ;-)

Rik

At 11:10 21/03/01 -0000, you wrote:
>According to the latest theories, time may be slowing down.   By
>acccepting that the speed of light has been continuously reducing from
>the point at which the universe was formed, they've worked out that the
>uncertainty as to whether the Universe is continuously expanding, or
>going to collapse again in a Big Crunch goes away.   Apparently, the
>Hubble Space Telescope is just beginning to show some evidence for this
>theory of a reducing value for c.
>
>So, in about 4000 000 000 years 137kHz may have become 73kHz.  Or
>Topband, or 10GHz, who knows.  Not sure what the implication of a
>variable value for c really means.   Antennas will have to change in
>length - or will they, perhaps wavelength will stay constant and
>frequency change.  Will my Caesium standard still be accurate ? 
>
>Its all very worrying :-(
>
>Andy  G4JNT