(August 24, 2011 at 9:48 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You must have glanced over the part where the speed of light has been confirmed by many experiments. Try again. (That was of course a quote from the original link I sent, had you bothered to read it.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_ge...relativity
Everyone should know this. It's high school physics, not exactly bleeding edge stuff. Were we to discover something that turned our idea on it's head, and light traveled at a different speed, or variable speeds, I would simply suggest another planet from which to view 1775. Wouldn't make your objection any less ridiculous.
Not sure where you went to high school but…the round trip speed of light has been directly measured yes, you are committing equivocation though. You are arguing that the one way speed of light has been proven to be uniform and then pointing to the proof for the round trip speed of light. It is impossible to directly measure the one way speed of light; it has to be assumed to be the same in all directions relative to the observer. The Einstein Synchrony Convention assumes that light moves uniformly in all directions in relation to the observer so it cannot therefore be used to prove that light moves at the same in all directions relative to the observer.
