Note on Varying Speed of Light Cosmologies

Abstract

The various requirements on a consistent varying speed of light (`VSL') theory are surveyed, giving a short check-list of issues that should be satisfactorily handled by such theories.

6 pages; to appear in the GRG Journal

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