From: rrllff@yahoo.com   
      
   On Thursday, August 15, 2013 1:42:58 AM UTC-4, James Klein wrote:   
   > Hi,   
   >    
   > Assuming that the hypothesis that time may be quantized can be shown to    
   > really exist, then if a photon jumps, at Space Ball's Ludicrous Speed    
   > or some other speed greater than what we call light speed from one    
   > place to the next during this quantum of time, could this not explain    
   > the limit for the speed of light in a vac. in the absence of mass    
   > bending the space it travels in.   
   > In this process light starts and stops and starts and stops over some    
   > Plank-like time quantum period. Maybe after it jumps, there is a    
   > quantum of rest time like the way in which CNS neurons have to go    
   > though a speed limiting process and they pass information in the brain.   
   >    
   > Light jumps a quantum distance over this quantum of time, light would    
   > be moving in a non-continuos way. Jump - stop - Jump - stop - jump etc.   
   >    
   > It always botherd me that everything seems quantized except time. I    
   >    
   > think quantized time might in some way be the key to the unification of    
   >    
   > quantum mechanis and relativity but it is a wild guess on my part.   
   >    
   > Just a thought and I'd love to hear some opinions but be nice, this is    
   >    
   > me, not Dr Image Nius posting.   
   >    
   > I won't even mention what he said when I suggested it to him but it    
   >    
   > made my worst post on sci.optics sound down right friendly.   
   >    
   > For Dr Image Nius fans, he emails me periodically from a hiding place    
   >    
   > he claims orbits the moon where he says is building his first warp    
   >    
   > drive engine with the help or 7 of 9, who he claims regularly    
   >    
   > calibrates his navigational sensor arrays. These regular clibrations I    
   >    
   > would guess is slowing down the building of the warp engine. :-)   
   >    
   > Jim Klein   
   >    
   > Engineering Calculation   
      
   A more interesting aspect (for me) is to speculate which mechanism sets the   
   permeability and permittivity of free space.  It is these values that set the   
   speed of light.  If they are constant (which we assume in all the astronomical   
   calculations of which    
   I am aware) then our present extrapolations may be correct.  However, if their   
   values can be changed (even controlled), then then we are back to square 1.   
      
   I've often wondered about the effect of assuming that the "constants" are not   
   truly constant.   
      
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