Just finished watching (twice) "Einstein's Blunder" on Netflix. If you haven't seen it, it's a dumbed-down (e.g. even *I* almost grasped it) review of more recent Variable Speed of Light (VSL) theories. As I'm watching this, it occurs to me that the OTU has likely adopted one or another of these as valid, since VSL allows energy and matter to be created/destroyed and also includes repulsive gravity as a fundamental force.

Of course, not that many real world scientists support VSL, but it appears to solve a lot of basic problems.

[As I understand it, while the speed of light varies over time, the scale of time involved is so massive relative to the change in velocity that - for all practical purposes for us living people - the speed of light is effectively constant.]

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester (fictional monster hunter portrayed by Jensen Ackles)

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.