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4 unusual facts about João Magueijo


Faster-than-light

The best-known attempt is doubly special relativity, which posits that the Planck length is also the same in all reference frames, and is associated with the work of Giovanni Amelino-Camelia and João Magueijo.

The speed of light is a dimensional quantity and so, as has been emphasized in this context by João Magueijo, it cannot be measured.

João Magueijo

In 2009, he published A Brilliant Darkness, an account of the life and science of vanished physicist Ettore Majorana.

In 1998, Magueijo teamed with Andreas Albrecht to work on the varying speed of light (VSL) theory of cosmology, which proposes that the speed of light was much higher in the early universe, of 60 orders of magnitude faster than its present value.



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