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> There is no chance that one day c or even g could change (no matter what "scientists" used to say in journals).

Well the thing is, c is defined in metres per second. And since 1983, the metre "has been defined as 'the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.'".[0]

Since 1983, c is defined as constant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre




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