Timeline for One-way speed of light experiment
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| Jul 25 at 1:14 | history | edited | benrg |
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| Nov 5, 2020 at 10:07 | comment | added | Criticize SE actions means ban | And if the speed of light is faster in one direction, so is the speed of sound, because sound is based on electromagnetic forces. | |
| Nov 5, 2020 at 10:06 | comment | added | Criticize SE actions means ban | "Since they are both attached to the same rod" - ah, but rods can bend. In fact rods can only transmit information at the speed of sound, which is even slower than the speed of light. When you start turning one end, there's a speed-of-sound delay before the other end starts turning. | |
| Nov 4, 2020 at 4:27 | comment | added | user276997 | @PM2Ring Thanks a lot for the link. I did CMD + F to find "one-way," and I read through the parts where he talks about it. It was quite interesting; he basically just said there are no physical changes that different one-way speeds would cause, so it doesn't really matter. He said it was just a convention. If you want, you can post this as an answer (maybe pull some specific quotes) and I'd be glad to accept it! Thank you! | |
| Nov 4, 2020 at 3:01 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | In case you didn't see it already, you should check out what John Norton has to say on this topic, which I linked in this comment. Norton is a physicist who is also a science historian & philosopher, specialising in relativity. | |
| Nov 3, 2020 at 23:50 | answer | added | benrg | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 3, 2020 at 21:50 | history | edited | user276997 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2020 at 21:48 | comment | added | user276997 | @SolomonSlow I agree. I don't think I was clear when I said to apply a torque. What I meant was to apply the torque before the experiment, not to apply the torque while performing the experiment. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll edit it now. | |
| Nov 3, 2020 at 20:48 | history | edited | user276997 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2020 at 20:29 | history | edited | user276997 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2020 at 20:23 | history | asked | user276997 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |