Sl: "--figure even closer to the speed of light.
ok I bite on that. Of course, as cofty would say: "bollocks". The builders had enough trouble putting it together, to worry about "c" ratios; but if you could establish from data that increments in real world structures, in dynamics, have ratios that conform to a "speed-of-light" related pattern, --you could be on to something. Since even gravity's changes, are believed to propagate at c, many measurements are also representing wave length, distance , frequency values. Kepler mined the data of Brahe, and similarly, finding any pattern based on c could reveal a [standing] wave or resonance background. The coincident, that the diameter of the Earth's orbit is ~ 1000 light seconds just invites such analysis. that is why looking at the cosmos, rather than Washington's needly could be monumental.