1676: The year the speed of light was derived from the heliocentric model.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_R%C3%B8mer

When the danish astronomer Ole Romer observed the motions of Jupiter's moons, he noticed that they do not orbit Jupiter perfectly periodically, but that there is a correlation between the time it takes them to orbit Jupiter and the distance between Earth and Jupiter, as calculated in the heliocentric globe-model.

The conclusion was shocking: Light moves at a finite speed!

Eventually, a few years later, it was the astronomer Christiaan Huygens who calculated the speed of light. Huygens took Romer's data and put it into the geocentric globe-model, with Earth being a globe and and Earth and Jupiter both orbiting the Sun. (A formula which, of course, would be radically wrong to begin with if Earth were flat.) And yet, somehow, despite using the heliocentric globe-model, Huygens got the speed of light fairly correct: He was off by just 24%.

Not bad for the first ever measurement of something that people didn't even know exists.



So, every time a Flat-Earther talks about the speed of light: You are welcome. You wouldn't even know that there is such a thing as the speed of light if it weren't for the heliocentric globe-model.

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sceptimatic

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Re: 1676: The year the speed of light was derived from the heliocentric model.
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2024, 04:53:29 AM »
No such thing as a speed of light.
Light cannot have speed; it is instant.
Speed of vibration is what really counts as far as I'm concerned, which is simply my opinion.

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markjo

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Re: 1676: The year the speed of light was derived from the heliocentric model.
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2024, 10:39:04 AM »
No such thing as a speed of light.
Light cannot have speed; it is instant.
Tell that to the police officer who uses a radar gun to give you a speeding ticket,
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JackBlack

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Re: 1676: The year the speed of light was derived from the heliocentric model.
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2024, 11:27:53 AM »
No such thing as a speed of light.
Light cannot have speed; it is instant.
Speed of vibration is what really counts as far as I'm concerned, which is simply my opinion.
No, light very much has a speed, and it is not instant at all, and there are several tests of the speed of light.

If you want a nice simple one, go get a nice long fibre optic cable, and then have high speed electronics send a pulse of light and measure how long it takes to reach the other end.