Re: How to Measure OWLS Equal to c Experimentally.

From: Cadwgan Gedrych (cadwgan_gedrych_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: 4 Dec 2004 09:53:06 -0800

ande452@attglobal.net wrote in message news:<41AAB181.7A46@attglobal.net>...
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> Relativity never claims that you can measure OWLS
> unambiguously.
>
> John Anderson

Hmmm ... what about SR's 2nd postulate?

"2. Any ray of light moves in the "stationary"
system of coordinates with the determined
velocity c, whether the ray be emitted by a
stationary or by a moving body. Hence

velocity = light path/time interval

where time interval is to be taken in the sense
of the definition in Section 1."

A coordinate system indicates measurement - a one-way
measurement of the speed of light relative to any standard
inertial reference frame.

Doesn't SR depend upon one-way isotropy/invariance?

On the other hand, you have the following little thread:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&threadm=5e1797c9.0412030653.7de01eaa%40posting.google.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26group%3Dsci.physics

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