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Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Re: Speed of Light Question?
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.211
Posted: Tue May  3 10:52:45 1983
Received: Wed May 18 00:30:58 1983
Reply-To: jonab@sdcrdcf.uucp (Jonathan Biggar)
References: <inuxc.652>


	If the speed of light were 100 times the current value,
	then interesting things would happen to light itself.
	The energy in a photom can be written as:

		E = ( h * c ) / lamda,

	where h is Plank's constant and lamda is the wavelength of
	the photon.  This would mean that light in the far infared
	region would have as much energy as visible light used to.
	Visible light would shift to the hard ultraviolet or x-ray
	region.  This could cause great problems with sight and
	cause general havoc with the environment.

	Also, because c is related to the electro-magnetic force,
	many things would not wordk the way they used to.
	Capacitances would differ, and I doubt that computers would
	work as they stand now.  The force that holds molecules
	together would also change, causeing a contraction or
	expansion of all matter.  It might even preclude molecular
	bonding altogether!!???!!

	This article is the result of about 10 minutes speculation,
	and I do not doubt that there are more effects than this.

					Jon Biggar