Re: [ATM] Large Telescope?

[Thomas Miller <tommy81@comcast.net>]

Guy Brandenburg wrote:

>  I don't know what flavor of
>popsicles these fellows are eating who believe that
>light from a quasar goes at a different rate from that
>of light from a star (that was a feeble attempt at a
>joke). I think they are seriously misguided in their
>attempt.

Ok, we are seriously misguided.  I can accept that.
We still want to make the measurement:  we want to know.

 > The michelson-morely experiments of over 100 years ago
 > showed definitively that the speed of light in a
 > vacuum is constant to any observer in any inertial
 > frame of reference.

I fail to see the relevance of the Michelson-Morely experiment to the 
measurement of quasar lightspeed.

One, they did not use quasar light in their apparatus, and

Two, even if they used quasar light with half-normal lightspeed, they had a 
differential interferometer that wouldn't have detected anything awry, in 
the absence of "aether drift."


I liked your analogy of Snell's Law and the swimmer and the lifeguard.


Thanks-


Tom-



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