To: Fester Chugabrew
You already take it on faith that the speed of light is, what? c. 386,000 miles per second? Your reason has led you to accept the testimony of several others who claim to have measured itActually it is the other way around. The speed of light in a vacuum is a constant and has been defined as exactly 299792458 meters per second.
BTW, you can roughly measure the speed of light yourself with nothing more that a microwave oven, a ruler, and a meltable food such as cheese or chocolate.
To: RadioAstronomer
BTW, you can roughly measure the speed of light yourself with nothing more that a microwave oven, a ruler, and a meltable food such as cheese or chocolate. OK, as you can see, I took the trouble to track back to your original statement -- so I am genuinely interested.
Pray tell!
I truly miss Scientific American's "Amateur Scientist" column with its neat experiments...
371 posted on
05/23/2005 7:10:25 PM PDT by
TXnMA
(ATTN, ACLU & NAACP: There's no constitutionally protected right to NOT be offended -- Shove It!)
To: RadioAstronomer
BTW, you can roughly measure the speed of light yourself with nothing more that a microwave oven, a ruler, and a meltable food such as cheese or chocolate. Ok... you've piqued my interest!
392 posted on
05/23/2005 8:47:47 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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