(December 27, 2011 at 9:09 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Apart form the obvious conundrum of judging ASC with something that ASC supposedly overturns, how exactly does any of this apply to Roemers observations?
Roemer was only observing the ONE WAY SPEED OF LIGHT not 2 way. Try to understand that.
By the way, none of this " that is that even in ASC, the clocks would read differently and there would be no experimental difference no matter what sychronizing convention one used as long as the two way speed of light remains constant in the two frames." makes any sense.
Please explain what it is supposed to actually mean.
Zen, did you bother reading any of the book that I cited? I think it explains things better than I ever could. It clearly says that different synchrony conventions would not result in any experimental observational differences like you suggest and it provides the math to back it up. So I will leave it to you to read it and comment on it if you wish. Remember, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean that what the book says isn't valid.
