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There has been a long debate in Special Relativity over whether the one way speed of light is even measurable in principle, with some claiming ingenious experim
by JamesCRR 14y ago
There has been a long debate in Special Relativity over whether the one way speed of light is even measurable in principle, with some claiming ingenious experimental setups are able to gauge it while others criticise those for making some assumption about synchronising clocks that presumes the result.
Then: if one accepts the one way speed of light is indeed not measurable and that only two way speed of light need be homogenous, it will follow that any one way speed is a result of convention in synchronizing clocks and we thinking in terms of 2 way speed is unphysical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light