That's what's great about my experiment, the bullet makes no difference; it's speed, who cares; it's mass, no impact; it's color, pfft; nothing about that bullet makes any difference to the speed of light or time.Fife wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 8:44 amMartin Hash wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 8:29 amThose jokers that fly airplanes around the world real fast then claim they've proved time travel (or dilation, whatever you want to call it) have only proved that the speed of light is constant and that their onboard measuring equipment didn't take that into account. (How could it?)
Here's a way to check:
A bullet shoots two rays of light, one back and one forward along its path. Measure the time each ray was received at either end of the path; the total will be the same time it takes a single ray of light to get from one receiver to the next. If time was different in the bullet, that wouldn't be the case.
If the bullet continuously shot rays, beams of light, and measurements were continually made at the receivers, the time since the bullet started at one receiver and ended at the other would HAVE TO BE THE SAME as the time in the bullet because the bullet is shooting the beams.
What is the speed of your bullet? What is its mass?
What does it look like to you as a stationary observer right before you fire it off? What does it look like to you as you make your measurements after it is in motion?
p.s. Gravitation (another wave) does have an impact on light (it curves it) but it doesn't slow it down, so no impact on the experiment.