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### Alpha particle moving faster than the speed of light

It can't. The fact that you're getting a speed that's larger than the speed of light is a sign something's gone wrong. Check your units. You should not get something larger than $c$ (I just checked ...
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### Can this experiment successfully be used to find out one-way speed of light?

No. "identical apparatus which can shoot a ball at the same speed [in opposite directions]" The same what now? The same speed in two directions? Sure, the apparatus looks like it works the ...
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### Time differential between two signals sent at two different near-relativistic speeds

This is a very interesting question. Indeed, as a one-way-speed-of-light (OWSOL) experiment the answer is a duplicate of all of the other myriad OWSOL questions: there is no possible experiment which ...
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### Can this experiment successfully be used to find out one-way speed of light?

Edited to add: The first four paragraphs below constitute my original answer. Below that is a new and better answer. Original Answer: Suppose the distance from A to C (and from B to C) is $s$. ...
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