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To: JRandomFreeper
Seems like measuring something FTL with non-FTL equipment is going to be a problem.

It's easier than it sounds. Send a light signal down a path at the same time the >C signal flies down the same path. Measure the difference in arrival times. Light travels about a a foot per nanosecond (10E-9). Cheap lab equipment can easily measure down to a nanosecond. Of course, more bucks, more Buck Rogers.

50 posted on 02/22/2012 5:38:48 PM PST by Mycroft Holmes (<= Mash name for HTML Xampp PHP C JavaScript primer)
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To: Mycroft Holmes
Light travels about a a foot per nanosecond (10E-9).

Thank you, RAdm Grace Hopper. She handed out pieces of copper wire that were a nano-second long. But she never said whether that C was through free space or through copper. ;)

I still see problems with accurate measurement.

/johnny

51 posted on 02/22/2012 5:46:16 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

In this experiment the light path is obstructed by the mass of the earth.


56 posted on 02/24/2012 4:25:20 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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