Mike:

Sam Wormley wrote:

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Observations and measurement show that the speed of light is constant.

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references please. so we can finally remove the constancy of the speed
of light

Which experiment has shown otherwise.

as an AXIOM of SR and turn it into an empirical principle.

Since that postulate is unnecssary to derive special relativity,
why would it make any difference?

hey stoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopid, the constancy of
the speed of light is a highly speculative axiom. it cannot be proven
in the context of SR using any kind of experiment due to the way the
theory is setup and clocks/rulers are used to treat simultaneity.

There's nothing speculative about it. Which experiment has ever
shown a non-constant speed of light? Which experiments contradict
maxwell's equations? Which experiments show that frequency x wavelength
in vacuum is not a constant?

hey stooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopid , i am waiting to
see a paper that validates the axiom of the constancy of the one-way
speed of light.

I'm waiting to see an explanation of the physics that would
distinguish between a round trip speed of light and differing
one-way speeds that amounts to more than mental masturbation
and/or doesn't contradict observations.

hey stoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopi d, the constancy
of the speed of light is a counterintuitive principle and has severe

I didn't realize that nature was obligated to be intuitive,
especially if you go out of your way to avoid the intuition.

implications regarding the nature of physwical reality, if it is true,
implications which you do not understand.

Naturally, there are implications. Charge conservation is one such
implication. Since no one has ever observed a process in which charge
is not conserved, a constant speed of light is feature.