On Einstein's explanation of the invariance of c

Discussion in 'Pseudoscience Archive' started by RJBeery, Dec 8, 2010.

  1. Motor Daddy Valued Senior Member

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    The only way to know if the stick has a true zero velocity is to measure the one-way times.

    Chances are slim to none that the stick you are measuring has a zero velocity. Measuring round trip time is completely useless!
     
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  3. arfa brane call me arf Valued Senior Member

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    Ok, so you have to measure the time it takes for light to travel to the mirror, then you have to measure the time it takes for light to travel back to the source?

    Can you describe a method that will do this? Do you need an accurate clock, or doesn't it matter?
     
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  5. Motor Daddy Valued Senior Member

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    I repeated the procedure in this thread. Like I said earlier, I'm sure technology has a more accurate way to measure the one-way times. GREAT!!! The more accurate the measurements the better! Measure as accurately as you can!
     
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  7. arfa brane call me arf Valued Senior Member

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    Yes, sure. But what would YOU use? What technology would you employ?

    That was the question. Please describe a method that uses available technology.
     
  8. Motor Daddy Valued Senior Member

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    I've already described the method in this thread. Use clocks sync'd my way and record the times the signals are sent and the times they are received.
     
  9. Motor Daddy Valued Senior Member

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    Really???

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter

     
  10. arfa brane call me arf Valued Senior Member

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    How do you synchronize clocks "your way", and what do you use to record the times?

    If you use two clocks, how do you make them synchronous and how do you make sure they are accurately measuring the same intervals of time?

    You see, just saying "use synchronized clocks", and "record the times" isn't very descriptive. In order to do either you need a METHOD which will necessarily involve physical uncertainty; inaccuracies and errors in measurement must be accounted for in any experiment.

    If you hand in a physics lab assignment that doesn't take errors into account, you lose marks (that's at a university mind you).
     
  11. arfa brane call me arf Valued Senior Member

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    Yes, really. The metre is a unit distance the French invented. "Metre" is a French word. So is "metrology"--note how the latter isn't spelt "meterology", "metric" isn't spelt "meteric', etc.

    Meters are measuring devices (but of course, so are rulers). Americans don't learn the English language, they learn "American English".
     
  12. Motor Daddy Valued Senior Member

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    ...and yet you choose to use round trip time and divide by two

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  13. arfa brane call me arf Valued Senior Member

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    I'll take that response as a "no, I don't have a clue" type of response?

    So the message you have to give us all is, you know how to wave your hands around?
     
  14. Neddy Bate Valued Senior Member

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    Hey Motor Daddy,

    Don't forget that you have to measure the "one way" times of light in ALL POSSIBLE DIRECTIONS before you can determine the absolute speed. This makes your method more complicated, but it must be done.

    Consider a train rolling through the absolute rest frame. If you measure one-way times for light traveling between the floor and ceiling, you incorrectly conclude the absolute speed of the train is zero. After that, you would calculate the height of the train incorrectly, because you would not have accounted for the train's motion through the absolute frame. So you must test light signals in all directions first. That is the only way to determine the DIRECTION of the absolute speed. After that, you can make your distance calculations, but the equations will be a little more complicated than the ones you've been using.
     
  15. Motor Daddy Valued Senior Member

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    Keep doing it your way. I couldn't care less. I'm just telling you it's laughable!

    ...and what's even funnier is that you think if you run away from a lamp post that light still has to travel 200'.

    Bwahahahahahaaha
     
  16. arfa brane call me arf Valued Senior Member

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    I know you couldn't care less. I also know that most physics students couldn't care less about your version of physics.

    But keep doing that limbo buddy, it's always a laugh watching someone try to bend over backwards.
     
  17. Motor Daddy Valued Senior Member

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    I never said different. As a matter of fact we talked about that earlier. I'm not Mr. Technology, I'm just telling you how to properly use light to measure velocity and length. Keep using Einstein's methods and keep wondering why science isn't making progress.
     
  18. Motor Daddy Valued Senior Member

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    That's what they call the blind leading the blind, students being taught garbage by people who don't know the correct way of doing things.
     
  19. arfa brane call me arf Valued Senior Member

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    A real howler!
    The GPS system is a good example of how little progress has been made by science since 1905, folks.

    Using lasers to measure distance and velocity is clearly holding us back. Whose dumb idea was that?
     
  20. Motor Daddy Valued Senior Member

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    Clearly not yours, as you think light always takes the same time to travel each way, regardless of the velocity. Now that's a hoot!!
     
  21. phyti Registered Senior Member

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    The method was defined to synch clocks in any inertial frame, i.e., it's a relative synchronization for a frame at a particular speed, without having to know the speed (relative or absolute).
     
  22. arfa brane call me arf Valued Senior Member

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    Motor Daddy just admitted he has no idea how a laser rangefinder works.

    I wonder if he knows about how military technology uses the above, or how much "faith" a jetfighter pilot has in the technology. I wonder if he's heard of that other laughable idea, called radar?
     
  23. Motor Daddy Valued Senior Member

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    So you can't find a hole in my theory, and I've proven why Einstein's is wrong, and now you are reduced to talking crap and telling lies. Whoda thunk??
     

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