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Re: The Light Sandwich Experiment and the Solution to Poincare's Curse

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On 18/07/17 13:43, John Gogo wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 8:16:41 PM UTC-5, John Gogo wrote:
urce A is situated closer to the observers because light universally
travels 300,000 meters per second.
>> 2) My theory assumes that light source A and light source B will be
>> SEEN INSTANTLY by the observer at the same time, since I do not
>> believed that observed light contains a physical quantity.
> 
> Actually, it was P.W. Bridgman who first suggested that light does
> not contain a physical quantity, quote from Miller of Bridgman:
> 
> From the Lorentz transformations it follows that the self-measured
> velocity of light is infinite, and so it is not a physical velocity.
> Bridgman found nothing amiss in this result because it agreed with
> assuming that light is not a thing traveling and hence need no longer
> be thought of as having the customary "physical velocity". He
> proposed no alternative theory of space and time to include an
> infinite self-measured velocity of light. But he emphasized that this
> tack could lead to a theory that would be independent of the
> structure of light, though the "simplicity and mathematical
> tractability" indigenous to special relativity theory would very
> likely be lost. Bridgman considered the loss of these qualities to be
> worthwhile if it led to a theory closer to the requirements of the
> operational view. In fact, he continued, the "whole problem of the
> nature of light is now giving the most acute difficulty."

This idea is not without merit. BaTh firmly believes that fields 
generally involve at least one unrecognized dimension...and so therefore 
does light. However, The fact that all EM takes time to go from A to B 
in our familiar 3D space gives it a conventional speed.



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