[Fortean]

Thanks for your welcome David and Michael.
It's a shame time doesn't exist because it would be fun to travel through it. I often wonder if some people treat science fiction as a prophet in some new religion rather than an enjoyable journey through someone's imagination.

Adding to the above post regarding the event counters we use to mark time...

Suppose the speed of light is slowing down, or at least observed to be slowing down. There are 2 possible explanations for this observation...
1. The speed of light is slowing down.
If it is slowing down then it could stop, but how fast was it going to start with. Theoretically there is no upper limit.

2. The clock we are using to measure this is going faster and the speed of light is a constant.
This is the most intriguing. If the underlying speed of the Universe is getting faster, i.e. all atomic structure is vibrating at a faster and faster rate, then it is reasonable to assume that at some point in the past it was not vibrating at all. The speed of the Universe was zero.
We know that when air is heated the atoms vibrate faster and the volume expands. Is the Universe a bubble of something. It is expanding and it could be vibrating faster. It is assumed that it occupied a smaller space in the past. Standing outside of the Universe you might interpret this as a very small and very dense thing that is warming up and getting bigger.
At what speed does an atom need to vibrate before it can no longer stay intact. What sort of atoms have gone for good and which will be the next one to go.
The background microwave radiation in the Universe may only be microwave now. What was it a few billion years ago when it was vibrating slower.
And does this mean the Universe is older or younger than currently thought.

...it should probably go in another forum.

Thanks, John.