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Sure: the Michelson-Morley interferometry experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson–Morley_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson–Morley_e
by gumby 3y ago
Sure: the Michelson-Morley interferometry experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson–Morley_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson–Morley_experiment
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoDoesn't that rely on synchronising the detector with the emitter though? That's the issue that makes one-way measurements effectively a round trip measurement. Edit: looks to me like mirrors are used and it is comparing two-way speeds in different directions.
- mikewarot 3y agoIf you look at the folded light path used in the Michelson–Morley interferometer (figure 5), you'll see that the X and Y distances traveled on both paths add to the exact same value. Thus, it would be completely insensitive to changes in the speed of light in the X or Y directions, no matter how it were rotated.
- gumby 3y agoThe whole point of that experiment was that it would show a difference, if such a difference existed, by projecting an interference pattern.