The Speed of Light, a Fundamental Universal Constant, is an Uncertain Quantity in the Sub-classical Range of Measurements

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Scientific Paper
Title The Speed of Light, a Fundamental Universal Constant, is an Uncertain Quantity in the Sub-classical Range of Measurements
Author(s) Yochanan Fein
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Published 1997
Journal None

Abstract

The speed of light, which has been experimentally shown to have a specific value to a very high degree of accuracy over classical distances, becomes increasingly uncertain over increasingly small scales of measurement. While this constant plays a fundamental role in all of subclassical physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle generates an increasingly large uncertainty in its value in these very same areas of physics.