Re: Light Speed Test versus Special Relativity

From: OG (owen_at_gwynnefamily.org.uk)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:31:33 -0000

"Stan Byers" <sbyers11@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Your site includes the following key paragraph
QUOTE
If the speed of the train of light and events from Jupiter was not
reduced in relation to the retreating Earth, succeeding observations of
eclipse events would remain in synchronism with the observations of the
near point. How could a station 2.6549 million miles further from
Jupiter observe an eclipse event at the same time that it is observed at
the near point
END QUOTE

That is a pretty big IF. . .
Please explain precisely WHY successive observations would remain in
synch if speed of light was not reduced.
They would move out of synch simply because of the increased distance.

It is, of course, no coincidence that the change in eclipse period is
proportional to the relative speed of the Earth and Jupiter, since the
relative speed times 152,916seconds gives the increase in distance.