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Originally Posted by BlameTheEx
No I don't.
A gravitational well acts as an optical lens. That much is well tested. I have been arguing that 2 causes are possible ETHER distances are compressed OR C is reduced. Ether way you get your lens.
The evidence holds up as well for gravity warping C as it does for warping space. If C is warped, space isn't. ALL the effects attributed to space warp have to be reassigned to reduced C.
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I used the example of distances being compressed in a gravity field by way of generally accepted theory.
It may be that in what you are saying, both things are true. C is reduced and distances are compressed.
Using the example of a volume of free space.
If the permeability of the volume where halved, then it is true that light would take twice as long to traverse the volume of free space. So the apparent speed of light would have halved.
Since time can be defined by the permeability of free space, the amount of time taken for the light to cross the volume would also have halved.
The net result is that it would appear that the speed of light has remained constant.
In truth, the light has taken longer to travel through the region of free space, but since every measurement is dependant on the permeability of that region, our preception of what has happened would be that the speed of light has remained constant.
