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To: PatrickHenry; RadioAstronomer
Contrary to normal practice I clicked on a link and checked it out, namely the one wherein it is proclaimed that the speed of light can be measured with a microwave and chocolate. There the following proposition is made:

"The speed of light is equal to the wavelength multiplied by the frequency of an electromagnetic wave (microwaves and visible light are both examples of electromagnetic waves)."

How can the unenlightened, ignorant, religious, superstitious masses so intent on the destruction of science verify this proposition? More importantly, for how many billions of years has this little experiment been performed and verified? Enough to certify a 4.5 billion year old earth as immutable fact?

Please give citations, and be sure to avoid dodging the question lest your truthfulness be called into question. (Not that it matters, since we're all a bunch of undesigned, unintelligent molecules anyway.)

375 posted on 05/23/2005 7:42:45 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew

"How can the unenlightened, ignorant, religious, superstitious masses so intent on the destruction of science verify this proposition?"

Well, you could reproduce Michelson's original experiment that measured the speed of light.


414 posted on 05/24/2005 5:11:00 AM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse
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To: Fester Chugabrew
"The speed of light is equal to the wavelength multiplied by the frequency of an electromagnetic wave (microwaves and visible light are both examples of electromagnetic waves)."

How can the unenlightened, ignorant, religious, superstitious masses so intent on the destruction of science verify this proposition?

If one is capable of logic, the proposition is verifiable just by thinking about it. A regular cosine waveform is rippling by you. The distance from wave peak to wave peak is one wavelength. The frequency is the number of wave peaks per second. The propagation speed in distance/second of the waveform past you has to be the physical length of one such peak-to-peak interval times the number per second of such intervals passing you.

Shame one has to spell it out for the logic-deprived. I guess religion really isn't all that good for the brain.

446 posted on 05/24/2005 6:59:29 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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