@freemo @Science No, the clocks are synchronized first then they are separated. For example one stays on Earth and one is sent to Mars. I understand that relativity will result in time dilation for whichever sensor accelerates to create the distance, but that can be accounted for with a Lorentz transformation. You still end up with two distance separated sensors that know what the other sensor's clock reads. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks for the response!
I am inspired today, once again, by the idea of duality and its fundemental role in our physical reality, from electrical duals, to quantum duals, to the round trip of light (earlier post) and so on...
The more time goes by and the more I think of the world as an expression of Duals (the formal term) the more I realize that duality itself may be the unifying property of the universe that all things emerge from.
I cant help but think that duality is a profound insight of the universe, but I havent quite connected the dots yet... All I know is everything we talk about seems to be only valid in duals and becomes unknowable when we try to seperate those duals in some way...
I am going to call it "The Iron Curtain of Duality"... but I feel like I need to invest time thinking about this, something is there.
Yes you are misunderstanding the fundemental problem.. if you do this experiment as you propose it would require both sensors to have synchronized clocks with very high accuracy correct? Synchronizing the clocks would be impossible if the speed of light is asymmetrical without knowing what that asymmetry is ahead of time. Worse yet, the error in synchronizing those clocks due to the asymmetry would be exactly enough to cause the experiment to incorrectly show that the speed of light is the same in both directions.
Ergo, your experiment would not be able to detect asymmetry in the speed of light if it existed.
@freemo @Science This is not correct according to my understanding of physics. Specifically addressing the claim that it is not testable: you could have distance separated sensors send light to each other and see how long it takes. If it takes longer in one direction than the other than the theory that the speed of light is constant would be falsified. Maybe I'm not understanding something, but I believe your claim is false. If I am missing something I'd love to know what.
**Interesting fact of the day**: The speed of light has only been proven to be a constant speed **round trip**. Not the instantaneous speed of light nor the speed of light while heading in a single direction has ever been able to be proven as constant.
In other words, it has never been experimentally disproved that light doesn't, for example, preferentially travel at half the speed of light in one orientation, but instantaneous in another. In fact it may very well be impossible to test the one-way speed of light due to the very consequences of relativity itself.
Richard #Stallman a.k.a. #RMS is the founder of the Free Software Foundation (#FSF), author of the original versions of **gcc** and **Emacs**, and perhaps best known for his creation of the GNU Public Licence a.k.a. #GPL.
Thanks to the pioneering work of Richard Stallman, Android has a freely available kernel that can boot it, and companies like Samsung are forced to release their augmented kernel source code to us every month, so that we can build — using Stallman's compiler — a working custom recovery like TWRP.
Richard Stallman is currently under coordinated attack by the cancel culture mob. They have him firmly in their sights and have set their hearts on trying to get him removed from the board of the organisation he founded in 1985, and which has been his life's work.
The reason for the attack is that Stallman is alleged to hold views that are "problematic" in the eyes of his detractors.
My own stance is that to even engage in debate of Stallman's views would be to lend credence to the notion that they are somehow germane to the work that Stallman does in support of free software. I contend that they are not, which is not to imply that the accusations leveled at Stallman would otherwise require intellectual or moral contortion to refute. They would not. Stallman's views, even if they were relevant, have been grossly misrepresented.
The attempted silencing of free speech is always painful to behold, but this ill-conceived attack on Stallman is particularly stomach-turning, given how much of his life he has devoted to the freedom of others, including those who accuse him now.
His contributions to free software and his consistent, uncompromising commitment to his beliefs regarding software freedom have made millionaires of others, including many among his accusers now, while Stallman himself continues to lead a life of subsistence.
#Android would not exist if it hadn't been for Stallman.
Without Stallman, we would not have the assurance that important software like #Magisk will continue to exist long after the project's creator has moved on.
Without Stallman, #TWRP would not now exist.
Were it not for Richard Stallman, most of the cheap electronic appliances and gadgets in your home would simply not exist.
Without Richard Stallman's groundbreaking work, the world would be a different and much worse place.
Now you can do something in return. Richard Stallman needs your support.
Please consider signing the petition below:
https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.github.io
If you need more background before signing, please take the time to do your own research and reach your own conclusions.
@freemo Wikipedia in Japan has a detailed article about the habit of warming and drinking (Kan). (There seems to be no English version, so use machine translation!)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%87%97%E9%85%92
It is common for Japanese people to drink sake chilled, but as mentioned in the article, it is also preferred to drink it warm.
It is said that a certain liquor is delicious when you drink it cold, and delicious when you warm it, but I think it is best to drink it in the way you think it is delicious.
@freemo @noellabo There is also DASSAI, which is a modern sake brewing method. It happens to have the same name, Asahi Shuzo, but it is a different brewer.
http://www.asahishuzo.ne.jp/en/
Regular sake is made by Toji, a sake brewing artisan, but DASSAI quantifies the artisan's experience and intuition and manufactures without Toji, providing stable, high quality, delicious sake that is highly regarded.
@freemo @noellabo As for sake made using traditional methods, there are many sake breweries throughout Japan that are proud of their products, and it is difficult to choose one over another. Please check out the Asahi Shuzo KUBOTA website.
https://www.asahi-shuzo.co.jp/en/
@noellabo @noellabo@fedibird.com If you dont mind me asking, do I remember correctly that you are japanese? I've recently got into sake and was wondering if you happen to have any good recommendations that are authentic to japan.
I'm a bit of a noob so forgive me if this question is not applicable for some reason.
Here comes the threats ... Really demoralises folks like us who create free #OpenSource software 🙁
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE