Ramblinman wrote:.... there's some pretty good physics behind his proposal that light speed at creation was 60 orders of magnitude faster than the present speed.
Magnitude is NOT 60 times light speed. It is light speed raised to the 60th power. .....
Well not quite
60 orders of magnitude is 10 raised to the 60th power which looks like:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
That has to be multiplied onto the speed of light which is
186,000 miles per second
Or 6.71E+008 Miles Per Hour = 671,000,000 MPH = 672 million MPH
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For you metric types we start at:
3.00E+008 meters per second
Or 1.08E+009 Kilometers Per Hour = 1,080,000,000 KPH = 1.08 Billion KPH
Then just ad another 60 zeroes to those numbers to match the theory of higher speeds of light early in the creation of the universe.
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