Science is one of those things that really is puzzling if you stop and think about it. We think we have a good understanding of things, but that is not always the case.

When I was in college, one of the Professors asked the class if anyone could disprove the speed of light. No one answered that they could.

She quickly replied that we do it everyday and don't even realize it. The way she explained it was rather interesting, and rather hard to argue.

Imagine that you are in a car driving down the road, and at the same time someone is walking down the road the same direction that you are going. There is a road sign up ahead with a rather attractive person on it. You see the sign, the person walking down the road sees the sign.

The speed of light is always the same right? Well, Is it really? If it is, how did both of you see it at the same time? Better yet, assume it was at night and the only light was from your headlights.

Did both of you see different signs, or different light? If you saw different signs, where is the other one? If you saw different light, how did it magically change the speed of the light so both of you could see the same sign at the same time? Your difference in speed is not that much, but even if it was both of you would still see the sign.

Either way you look at it, something is not right and explaining what that is is not so easy to do. One explanation is a time difference because you are moving faster than the guy walking down the road. Your timeline is slower because you are moving faster. If that was the case, did he perceive you as moving slower than you actually were? Did he instantly know that you would be late because you were slowed in time? And is the poor guy aging faster than you are because he is moving slower threw time than you are? 

From our vantage point in the universe, it appears to be ever expanding.  But that is based on the constant speed of light as part of the equation. We have no idea what it is doing, because we don't know how fast the light was going over the entire trip it took to get here. The universe could be collapsing at an alarming rate for all we really know.

Face it, we don't have a clue how to explain this or many other things that we think we understand.

Life is an illusion, and we are all falling for it.

Fast forward 30 years or so, and looking back the Professor was probably right.

It has since been proven that a beam if light can be stopped dead in its tracks. Totally disproving the speed of light is an unchangeable constant.

Light stopped dead in its tracks

Ironically, she was a Psychology Professor

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