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Knowing the one-way speed of light

Huygens Optics 89,909 7 months ago
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So you think you have a brilliant idea about how to measure the one-way speed of light, only to discover that it contains a very trivial oversight. Luckily this initial failure was the start of a few new insights on the relationship between one-and two-way speed of light. Well, at least new to me... What do you think: is there a way that the one-way speed of light is not identical to the two-way speed of light? Content: 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Origin of the two-way speed of light definition 1:40 The Fizeau speed of light experiment 3:27 Trying to measure the one way speed of light (and fail) 12:07 Speed of light from the wave perspective 18:24 Problems related to opposing anisotropy in vacuum 21:23 Violation conservation laws (abstract) 22:23 But... when spatial anisotropy changes with time... The video contains 2 short clips of the following videos: @Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k&t=626s @AlphaPhoenix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMO9uUsjXaI Thumbnail in light of Yoda's Light Sabre from Star Wars For the simulations, I used a Python script supplied by @DiffractionLimited End music: Floating - Earlybirds Special thanks to Physbuzz for interesting views and discussions. If you enjoy coding waves, check out this page: https://www.mathandcode.com/2024/04/21/waveequationint.html

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