Why not use 2 light beams at different wave lenghts? Interference at both ends should give the answer. kinda M&M experiment but only one way.
2011/4/24 Mauro Lacy <ma...@lacy.com.ar>: > On 04/24/2011 04:58 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: >> >> It occured to me that a one way light speed experiment performed under the >> assumption that absolute motion is correct does not need to worry whether >> clock >> sychronisation is affected by motion. >> The experiment should proceed on the assumption that it is sufficient to >> synchronize two clocks at the same location and then move them apart the >> desired >> distance. >> If clock synchronisation is affected significantly by the motion of >> separation, >> it will show up in the data but it can be removed from the data after the >> fact >> using special relativity. >> > > :-) Turning the theory against itself. Nice. > But I think that what you say will not work, because the point is that, due > to relativistic effects, you always obtain a null result in all directions. > To remove the effect of separation, you'll need to know not only that > absolute motion is correct, but also the direction and magnitude of such > motion. And that's precisely what you're trying to determine in the first > place. > >
