Re: .Simple SR question...



On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:13:14 -0000, "Martin Hogbin" wrote:

"Dark Energy" <asleep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Unless you can somehow show how light is
"measured to travel at c in all inertial frames"
during a one-way journey.

You are quite right, Brian. I should have said
that it is postulated that light travels at c in
all inertial frames.

It's "Dark Energy," and your new answer is also wrong.

Here's why:

"To postulate" in physics means
"to assume to be an experimental result";
however, in this case, this is not possible.

That is, it is not possible for the speed
of light to be c experimentally between
two 'stationary' clocks in two or more frames.

(Please, no more evasion, Martin.)

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