Limiting speed in nature

摘要

Einstein, while formulating his theories of relativity long before the space age, had fixedthe terrestrial magnitude of the velocity of light c as the limiting speed of all natural phenomena. Asexplained in earlier papers published by the authors, the remodeled relativity theory (RRT) avoidsthe inadequacies and inconsistencies of Einstein's relativity theories, by using only experimentallyproven principles. The almost identical mathematical models of the RRT for the orbits of celestialbodies as well as those of photons demonstrate that c is a variable that is of greater magnitude atlocations closer to massive celestial bodies than on the Earth. The purpose of this paper is to presentthe RRT derived limiting value of c based on the presently available observational data and also toclarify certain paradoxes or anomalies of the general relativity theory in relation to black holes andthe "anomalous" redshifts of the relevant compact celestial bodies. The authors contend that whenthe orbit of a photon becomes circular near a black hole, c is at a maximum, and this speed is equalto the propagation speed of gravity, which is the limiting speed in nature. This contention issupported by the fact that the lower limit of this speed generated by the RRT model compares wellwith the velocity of gravitational interactions obtained earlier by Laplace. Further, the RRT modelshows that the "anomalous" redshifts observed in 2002 in the luminous filament of the SeyfertGalaxy NGC 7603 are due to the higher values of the "local" velocity of light as compared to thestandard value of c and are not, in fact, anomalous at all.