(July 18, 2013 at 6:23 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Suggesting that light travels at the same speed from A to B as it does from B to A in relation to the observer A’s velocity is a stipulation, it’s a matter of convention and therefore proves nothing concerning how light really does travel. If we want to make the speed of light dependent upon position rather than velocity we are certainly free to do so, and therefore light from distant stars reaches Earth instantaneously under that convention. The point is that you cannot argue by appealing to mere convention.
No kidding, really? I really was not aware of that, Statler. /sarcasm
The point that is eluding you is this - I am not the one that is proposing that light behaves differently traveling from point A to B than it does from point B to A (or under any other circumstance, for that matter).
I'm proposing that it lacks the appearance that it does so, and that there is no known mechanism by which it could do so, and it seems humorous to me to suggest that it does do so.
Might, yeah. Then again, monkeys might fly out of my butt, too.