Re: This is What Einstein Actually Did.


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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.

No? Please describe any measurement of c prior to 1983
and show me how it doesn't use independent measurements
of time and distance to determine c.

How is the speed of light measured?

http://hermes.physics.adelaide.edu.au/~dkoks/Faq/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/mea
sure_c.html
None of the procedures described in this link uses the method of measuring
the time and distance (using a measuring tape) separately.

Ken Seto



- Randy



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