From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!csu-cs!silver
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Changing fundamental constants
Article-I.D.: csu-cs.2190
Posted: Wed May  4 08:15:20 1983
Received: Wed May 11 07:43:53 1983


I  recommend  you read two good  books I came  across  recently:  "Other
Worlds"  and "The  First  Three  Minutes".  The first one  discusses  in
detail (at the  layman's  level) what the effects  might be of  changing
basic constants, as a side-effect of exploring the notion that there are
infinitely-squared  many  different  universes, but that only a very few
could give rise to sentient life to know about it.  The latter book is a
good  summary of the current  (or at least  recent)  state of  knowledge
about the overall nature of the universe we know, and how it started.

Responding  directly to your question  about changing the speed of light
-- you  should  know by now from the other  responses  that  it's a moot
point.  If you changed the value, the universe would simply not be as we
know it.

Alan Silverstein