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Re: Relativity conundrum

Brian Whatcott wrote:

At 10:17 AM 4/22/2003 +0300, Pentcho, you wrote:
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In my view, the only reliable way to experimentally falsify one of the
developments
is to measure the speed of light in a frame NOT CONTAINING THE SOURCE OF
LIGHT. This
seems feasible.

Pentcho Valev

?

Is there any reason to suppose that the numerous published experiments
measuring the speed of light in a frame not containing the light source
have some systematic error?

Sorry, Brian, I don't know them - I am not a physicist. Could you describe
some simple one? I was only able to imagine a paradigm-experiment: The
lightning flash reaches the back end of the train, stops a clock there, part
of the light passes through a hole and goes to the front end where it stops
another clock. The clocks were initially synchronized. For the moment I am
not able to imagine an experiment essentially different from this paradigm.

Pentcho