Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by AnimalMuppet on Friday November 06, 2020 @08:11PM
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With synchronized atomic clocks, I could measure one-way speed - at least well enough to tell the difference between c, c/2, and infinity.
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Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by tasty_freeze on Friday November 06, 2020 @11:32PM
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Watch the linked video. He goes into that issue.
Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by AnimalMuppet on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:56PM
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No, I'm not going to watch the linked video to find out whether he's really answering my question or not. Tell me why I can't synchronize two atomic clocks that are right next to each other, then put one in a car and drive 1000 km away. Tell me why that won't allow me to correlate departure and arrival times well enough to answer the question.
Re:How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year
by tasty_freeze on Saturday November 07, 2020 @03:00PM
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You are being rather demanding, but I'll bite anyway.
When a synchronized clock is accelerated, it will experience time dilation as compared to the stationary clock; they will no longer be synchronized. You might think: ah, I'll just correct for that using relativistic calculations. But you'd be wrong again because Einstein explicitly states that everything in his theory assumes that the speed of light is uniform.
Really, the video does explain all this and more.