Re: The Impossibility of Measuring the Velocity of Light

Traveler wrote:
>
> In article <xJAce.27952$WI3.17432@attbi_s71>, Sam Wormley
> <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >JM Albuquerque wrote:
> >
> >> Makes no difference, Uncle Al. It still has to be measured, and very
> >> carefully.
> >
> > No, Albuquerque, the speed of light a physical constant of nature *is*
> > a defined, not measured constant.
> > http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/SpeedofLight.html
>
> Uncle Al must have pumped you in the ass the night before, Wormley. On
> that very page you refer to, there is a link which deals with nothing
> but the measurement of the speed of light over the years:
>
> http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/spedlite.html
>
> That the speed of light is defined has nothing to do with whether or
> not it is measured, fuckface. The decision to define c probably had to
> do with providing a practical way to standardize either the meter or
> the second. This way nobody has to go to Paris or some other
> standard's body to calibrate one's measuring tools. One simply has to
> measure c and adjust the tools accordingly using the defined value for
> c. Get a clue.
>
> You and that fuckface, Uncle Al, are fucking stupid to an absurd
> degree. Your fucking ass-kissing job is to prevent people from doing
> their own thinking. Uncle Al managed to change the subject of this
> thread so as to prevent people from discussing the reason why c is
> measured constant in all FORs. So the stupid motherfucker sticks his
> head up his ass as far as it can go and declares that c is no longer
> measured. Do you assholes get paid for this ***? Dishonesty in
> science is a sign of hidden vices. Are you two dickheads pedophiles by
> any chance?

Lightspeed is a DEFINED constant, idiot Savain. It is EXACT.
http://physics.nist.gov./cgi-bin/cuu/Value?c|search_for=all!
DING!!! idiot Savain DING!!!

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