Re: [Vo]:I meant confidence that light has a speed

2011-09-12 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-08-25 10:33 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 06:55 PM 8/24/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is an interesting footnote to history. I believe the speed of sound was not established with this much precision until later. This was done by assuming for simplicity that the speed of light is

Re: [Vo]:I meant confidence that light has a speed

2011-09-12 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 11-08-25 10:33 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 06:55 PM 8/24/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is an interesting footnote to history. I believe the speed of sound was not established with this much precision until later. This

Re: [Vo]:I meant confidence that light has a speed

2011-09-12 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-09-12 05:18 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 11-08-25 10:33 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 06:55 PM 8/24/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is an interesting footnote to history. I believe the speed of sound was not established

Re: [Vo]:I meant confidence that light has a speed

2011-09-12 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 12, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 11-09-12 05:18 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 11-08-25 10:33 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 06:55 PM 8/24/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is an interesting footnote to

Re: [Vo]:I meant confidence that light has a speed

2011-08-27 Thread fznidarsic
/zpt/chapter7.html#Pg12 Frank Znidarsic -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 6:55 pm Subject: [Vo]:I meant confidence that light has a speed I wrote: Scientific instruments and techniques hundreds

Re: [Vo]:I meant confidence that light has a speed

2011-08-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:55 PM 8/24/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is an interesting footnote to history. I believe the speed of sound was not established with this much precision until later. This was done by assuming for simplicity that the speed of light is close to infinite over short distances, and firing a

[Vo]:I meant confidence that light has a speed

2011-08-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Scientific instruments and techniques hundreds of years old can measure temperature, the speed of an object, the speed of light and many other important values with as much confidence as the best technology can today; albeit with far less precision. Note that the speed of light