The scenario I am referring to is one which would show that the speed of light is invariant. So we would have a vacuum and a moving observer and a light wave. Could you please tell me of a known experiment of that type of scenario.
I am getting confused as to which experiment proved that the speed of light was invariant in a vacuum. At first I thought it was the Michelson-Morley experiment but that does not have a moving observer.
If we could imagine a medium that could slow down light quite significantly, if a sound wave and a light wave were both passing through this medium, would the sound wave see the light wave passing by at the speed that light passes through that medium or would it see it passing by at the speed...
I would have a thought a forum was a very good place to make a challenge. Making mistakes is part of learning. It is not a problem to make a mistake, the problem is when the mistake is never corrected because it has been around forever and is therefore thought not to be a mistake. It was 6 years...
I may sound like a novice because I have made some errors, but strangely I knew when I said that the speed of sound was always constant that it was wrong. I still said it because in my mind I was trying to figure something out and that is sometimes how it works. I am not an expert either but I...
What exactly do you mean by GPS is doing the second one? Do you mean that GPS is the equivalent of an experiment where you have an observer moving relative to the medium in which there is the source of a beam of light? If that is the case, could you please be more specific in the details.
This discussion has evolved but it is still in essence comparing light and sound waves. I realized my mistake when I said that the speed of sound would be the same in any situation. It wouldn't if the observer was moving relative to the medium of the sound wave.
So have there been any other...
Yes I know that the velocity of the source does not come into play, it is the velocity of the observer which is important relative to the medium. The experiment done by M-M is not using a simple method whereby you have a source of light, such as a torch and then you have an observer moving...
From what I have read in the Michelson-Morley experiment they shone two beams, one in the direction of the spin of the Earth and one in the opposite direction. There was no moving observer. What have you read about the Michelson-Morley experiment?