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That's begging the question, in the original sense of the term.

While it has long been observed that hypothetical changes in the speed of light would be difficult to measure if certain other quantities changed with it in lockstep (and by "long" I mean 100+ years, going all the way back to the original debates around relativity), it is still meaningful to ask if the speed of light has changed relative to the quantities that it seems to related to.

If that turns out to be the case, it will mean that our definition is wrong, not that the speed of light isn't changing. Our definition is a constant because we believe it to be a constant. If we're wrong, it will need to change.

Indeed, and we too will also need to change ourselves accordingly.

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