So it’s completely reasonable to assume the speed of light is 1/2 c in one direction and infinite in the other. It’s just an optional convention that we consider the speed to be the same in both directions.
Einstein said that light’s one-way speed “is in reality neither a supposition nor a hypothesis about the physical nature of light, but a stipulation which I can make of my own freewill in order to arrive at a definition of simultaneity.”*
*A. Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, authorized translation by R. W. Lawson (New York: Crown Publishers, 1961), p 23.
Perhaps an RFC should be written to address this :)
-mel
On Jul 21, 2024, at 6:38 PM, Scott Q. <qmail@top-consulting.net> wrote:
Well...it gets complicated :)
On Sunday, 21/07/2024 at 20:15 Josh Luthman wrote:
Whoops, that should have said radio waves travel faster than fiber (more so in a vacuum).