[Avodah] if speed-of-light constant fails

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Saul Newman asked:

> are there any theological implications if it turns out that
> fundamental constants are proven to be not so?

It seems to me that the implications would be the exact converse (reverse? inverse? sorry, I've forgotten - R"n Katz: help!) of the implications which we faced back when it was first proven that these were indeed fundamental constants.

In other words: None that I can think of.

I can see theological implications of the sun going around the earth or vice versa. But of the speed of light? Where did Chazal talk about such things?

On the other hand, if this opens the door to truly going back in time, then I see at least two areas of theological implications: (1) Research into historical events could overturn millenia of understanding. (2) We accustomed to the concept of "cause and effect", where the cause comes first. If the cause comes after the effect, ... I can't even imagine the philosophical and theological implications. This is stuff for the real PhD's.

Akiva Miller

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