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> That seems contradictory and unintuitive, that two observers moving away from each other both measure light moving c relative to themselves, but that’s realit
by pigpang 3y ago
> That seems contradictory and unintuitive, that two observers moving away from each other both measure light moving c relative to themselves, but that’s reality.
Light is a wave. Photon is a complex thing (Hopfion?), but it's a wave, so it waves something, a medium. Speed of wave propagation in a medium is constant. IMHO, it's intuitive.
- mrguyorama 3y ago>but it's a wave, so it waves something, a medium. Which was unobserved in the michleson-morely experiment and other followup experiments because....?
- pigpang 3y agoLIGO/Virgo are better version of Michelson-Morely experiment. Gravitational waves are found, so existence of a medium is confirmed.
- mrguyorama 3y agoGravitational waves existing doesn't confirm the existence of a medium any more than discovering light behaves like a wave confirms the existence of the aether. If you want to posit that light has a medium, you need to redo 100 years of physics, so start showing your work. You mention elsewhere "doing a calculation", and that's just not nearly good enough. You want to overturn perfectly working physics, you NEED to show up with receipts. That's table stakes.