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Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light

From moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light
Date 2018-09-07 01:25 +0000
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Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> writes:

><numbernumber1964@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is not physically possible to measure the velocity of light since one

"Those who say it is not possible, should not interrupt those doing it."

--Chinese proverb


>> cannot produces a single light pulse that can propagates a distance that
>> can be recorded using a circuit since the reaction time of a circuit
>> would be to large to determine the velocity of light.
>> 

>In my sophomore year in college, I measured the speed of light by arranging
>mirrors at the end of a long hallway in a university building, and firing a
>shuttered HeNe laser four passes back and forth, to a photodiode connected
>to a small amp and an oscilloscope. 200ft x 4 ~ 0.8 microseconds, which is
>a piece of cake on an o’scope. 

I did pretty much the exact same experiment in freshman/sophomore college.

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Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2018-09-06 15:12 -0700
  Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-09-06 22:43 +0000
    Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2018-09-06 16:18 -0700
      Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-09-07 00:52 +0000
      Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-09-07 05:08 +0200
        Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light consequently7990662@gmail.com - 2018-09-06 20:18 -0700
          Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-09-07 11:34 +0000
    Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2018-09-06 16:53 -0700
      Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-09-07 00:52 +0000
    Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2018-09-07 01:25 +0000
      Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light consequently7990662@gmail.com - 2018-09-06 20:07 -0700
  Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-09-06 18:15 -0500

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