Re: This is What Einstein Actually Did.


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"Randy Poe" <poespam-trap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Did you measure the distance AB using a measuring tape? Or did you use
the
time difference (t'A-tA) and the standard definition for a meter
(1/299,792,458 light-second) to measure length?

First of all, perhaps you don't realize that this standard for the
meter was adopted in 1983. People measured c before 1983.
There was a published value of c good to at least 8 or 9
significant figures. Where do you think that came from if nobody
ever measured it?

But none of those measurements were made using the direct method of
measuring TWLS or OWLS.

When this was measured prior to the 1983 redefinition of the
meter, it was done against an independent length standard.

Second, when you are measuring a velocity of something,
you measure the time and distance separately.

Exactly. But c is not based such a procedure. It is based on (wavelength of
kryton-86)(frequency of Kryton-86). Such a procedure eliminates the effect
of absolute motion.

Only an idiot
would think you use the same time measurement to calculate
the distance. Even now if you did a speed of light measurement,
you wouldn't do it that way.

But that's exactly what the definition for a meter allows.

Ken Seto



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