RE: The universe appears "old", but it is still less than 10,000 years old
November 27, 2013 at 11:06 am
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2013 at 11:34 am by orogenicman.)
(November 27, 2013 at 8:56 am)Optimistic Mysanthrope Wrote:(November 27, 2013 at 12:53 am)orogenicman Wrote: That measuring that one-way speed may be problematic is not evidence in support of a 10,000 year old universe, which is what the warped one is trying to do.
You're right, it can't. But it can't be used as evidence against it either.
Most certainly it can. Any measure of the speed of light, be it one-way, or two-way, that involves a fraction of a fraction of a percent difference in measurement is never going to give you a result that is any closer to a 10,000 year old universe than the currently known standard speed of light in a vacuum. Since the difference will always be a fraction of a fraction of a difference, + or -, you are still going to have a result that approximates 299,792,458 m / s. Given the distance to the most distant object known using current light measurements, you will never get a result that will give you a 10,000 year old universe, no matter how much special pleading you do. why? Because it will never change the standard candle enough to make such a significant difference between what we know it to be, and what the warped one wants it to be.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2259
All experiments attempting to verify the invariance of speed of light directly are based on two-way speed measurement. The challenge in one-way speed measurement, the requirement of spatially separated synchronised clocks, can be possibly circumvented by measuring the speed of light travelling in a closed path. An apparent violation of the invariance principle has been recently reported in the first experiment attempting to measure the one-way speed of light utilising this concept. This experiment is reanalysed here. It is found that the results of the experiment can be explained within the framework of relativity, without requiring any violation of the invariance principle.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.2259v2.pdf
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/fcc5f05c5e44
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