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Young Earth Creationism Vs. Science (Statler Waldorf Contd)
RE: Young Earth Creationism Vs. Science (Statler Waldorf Contd)



Well I have not had a chance to read all of your last response yet :-( This is an interesting idea, but what I think you will find is it is impossible to synchronize the clocks necessary to conduct the experiment without using a synchrony convention. You could use the Einstein convention to do this but this would be begging the question because it assumes light moves at the same speeds in all directions relative to the observer (hence why radio waves from the voyager does not measure the speed of light in one direction because the ESC is used to synchronize the two clocks involved). You could also use the ASC to synchronize the clocks, but this would also be begging the question because it assumes light moves at different speeds in different directions relative to the observer. This is why these are conventions




What are you even talking about? That's been the whole point of this discussion from the get-go. There is no test that can demonstrate light moves at different speeds or the same speed for that matter relative to the observer. All of these tests require a synchrony convention in order to synchronize the clocks. If I use the Einstein Synchrony Convention it will show that light moves the same speed in all directions relative to an observer and that time-dilation due to motion is negligible at speeds not approaching 14 percent of the speed of light, but that's because this convention assumes all of this to be true! If I used the ASC to synchronize the clocks it would show that light moves at different directions relative to the observer and that time-dilation is not negligible even at speeds only 1 percent of the speed of light. That's why these are called conventions. They are different ways of measuring the same observed phenomenon, and to say that one is somehow more “correct” than the other demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue.
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RE: Young Earth Creationism Vs. Science (Statler Waldorf Contd) - by Statler Waldorf - March 1, 2011 at 8:06 pm

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