VELOCITY OF LIGHT.
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LONDON, December 5,
"Light is getting lazy," Bays tb« seietitist Abbe Motcux, according to » message from Pftrls. Calculations since early in the nineteenth century show that the speed of light has decreased regularly .by 2J miles a second a year from 192,630 miles a second to about 180,000. The variation Is not attributable to more accurate measurement. A satisfactory explanation is not available.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19177, 7 December 1927, Page 11
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