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Challenging Einstein: The speed of light is not an absolute constant, physicist says (Bruce Rolston, October 25, 1999, www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca)

An apostate, the dictionary tells us, is one who renounces, defects or revolts from a religious faith. Although he might not use it himself, the term is hard to avoid when trying to describe the scientific approach of physicist John Moffat.

Because Moffat, you see, doesn't think small when challenging established scientific dogma. This professor emeritus who has been at U of T since 1964 has decided to go after Albert Einstein himself, and Einstein's special theory of relativity; in particular, what that theory has to say about the absolute limit formed by the speed of light.

One of the conclusions contained within Einstein's 1905 theory is that the speed of light (300 million metres per second) is an absolute constant. It is the cosmic speed limit; nothing can, has or ever will travel faster. If there is an equivalent to holy writ in modern physics, this is it.