? ?saul wrote:Not quite the way I see it. I am using the light as an end point in determining the elapsed distance. Distance is defined by the speed of light, not the other way around.Goldminer wrote: Consequently, all you Einsteinians are fantasizing about the speed of light "in any inertial frame of reference." You are using an elapsed distance as an end point in determining the "speed" of light" between reference frames.
Light (a pulse of it) travels about a foot per nanosecond. It has to be detected! Get it? A light pulse has a duration. If the detector is in motion with the source, there is no "point." If the detector is in inertial motion with the source, outside of a gravitational field, the pulse is detected over a distance, otherwise known as a line.
I anxiously await your explanation of how "light" becomes an endpoint in the moving detector reference frame!
By the way, "light" has nothing to do with distance. It does help with seeing what you are doing though! One can step off distance heel to toe in the dark, counting as you go.
By the way, Saul, good to hear from you again. Don't be so scarce!