It's obvious that not only does light move faster now than it did in the distant past, it's speed varies considerably during the course of the day.

2 billion years ago most life was confined to the ocean. The earth and the rest of the universe were filled with dumb things like trilobytes, squids and Texans.

As the speed of light increased so did the electrical activity in their simple nervous systems. This encouraged the neurons to evolve into brains and stuff until now billions of years later we can have nuclear weapons and internet porn.

This process repeats itself every day. In the early morning hours the speed of light is slow. Our brains are sluggish. It's obvious that the constant that determines the speed of light is dependant upon the total amount of coffee consumed in the universe because after a pot of coffee our neurons are chugging right along.

Paradoxically the speed of light also seems to increase after dark because that's party time.

I get up an hour or so after sunset and slow down the clocks for morning. Around noon I go back to bed and time speeds up again because it no longer has to drag my dead assed weight along.

Or so the graveyard shift logic appears at this early hour.

I kinda remember measuring the speed of light back about 2 billion years ago (me and Orvil did it for kiks one Tuesday afternoon) and, by golly, it was somehow different! But me an Orvil disagree on most stuff anyway. He says potatoe and I say potatoe.

This topic kicks my ass and the ball and chain and I were actually debating this not very long ago, when he was in a drunken stupor and was trying to get a smart assed and shit. Specifically howinthehell can we measure the speed of light in a vacuum here on this planet and then think for one damn minute it is the same for the rest of the universe. Just like humans to think they know it all and can somehow make the rest of the universe fit their grand scheme of things.

Sounds like an intellectual argument about something that in no way will change your life or view on life. Productive.

Unless of course you soak up the information for ammo in other debates that may actually have a purpose.