(August 10, 2010 at 4:37 pm)ABierman1986 Wrote: The speed of light as symmetrical can be directly drawn from the laws of electromagnetism...
And what law is that? What is your evidence? I have provided a wiki article and a scientific article by Zhang to support what I was saying regarding one-way vs. two-way speed of light. So far you have not provided anything.
(August 10, 2010 at 4:37 pm)ABierman1986 Wrote: this article is not confirmed by an educational institution but is accurate in it's handling of the question of light's speed and explaining why it must be constant:
http://www.vttoth.com/LIGHT/light.htm
This article seems to be talking about the two-way speed of light, not the one-way speed of light. There is a big difference. No matter what convention you take on clock synchronization, apparently it will not affect any measurements of the two-way speed of light. Also, it seems apparent from the articles I provided that the one-way speed of light is "undefined (and not simply unknown), unless one can define what is 'the same time' in two different locations" (from the wiki article).
(August 10, 2010 at 4:37 pm)ABierman1986 Wrote: Newton says that one could design an experiment to prove either theory for the way light propagates....sure, if you only want to use one set of parameters that does not cover all your bases.
I'm not sure what part or quote you are referring to specifically but I think his point was that whichever convention you choose for clock synchronization, you will get consistent experimental results as long as you are consistent in your application of synchronization. I think this is supported by the Zhang paper I cited.
(August 10, 2010 at 4:37 pm)ABierman1986 Wrote: The one way speed of light is not 'chosen' by synchronization, it's been deduced to be fundamental to electromagnetism and its models have been used to successfully predict numerous scientific experiments and observations have confirmed these models' accuracy on countless occasions.
I have provided evidence that says otherwise. So far you have provided nothing to substantiate this position of yours.
