Bendy light?

My experiment from before should prove or disprove it. Long solid cylinder, small hole just bigger than lasers diameter, laser, someway to measure light. Measure light at beginning, then measure light at end. If they are not the same, then that might be BLT in effect.

If however then you get the same results with the tube in a vertical orientation, then you know it is not BLT.

See how much better it is when we accept each others arguments?

My experiment from before should prove or disprove it. Long solid cylinder, small hole just bigger than lasers diameter, laser, someway to measure light. Measure light at beginning, then measure light at end. If they are not the same, then that might be BLT in effect.

If however then you get the same results with the tube in a vertical orientation, then you know it is not BLT.

See how much better it is when we accept each others arguments?

You my friend, have obviously failed science.


If 5% less of the light made it to the other end, you could easily find out the acceleration of light upward. I guess you have no intuition either?

If 5% of the light didn't make it to the end, and we know the diameter of the light beam, we can find out how much it must have gone upwards. Since we know the upward distance, we can find out the acceleration as we know how long it took the light to get to the other side. Knowing the acceleration, well know you know the bending/acceleration of light.

This is high school physics.

Lets say it went up 1 mm. It took lets say 1 microsecond. So it accelerates 2 mm/microsecond^2. There is your acceleration.

But to my knowledge, no experiment has yet been done which attempted to, which is why it is not worth discarding yet.

I was giving a rough overview of the experiment. I am sorry you are addicted to formulae but I have not put much time into this experiment as i was merely showing how it could be done.

Quote from: ugaboga313 on January 17, 2010, 01:57:00 PM

I was giving a rough overview of the experiment. I am sorry you are addicted to formulae but I have not put much time into this experiment as i was merely showing how it could be done.

He is addicted to formulae. When he's not quoting equations, all he can do is grunt like a caveman.

Quote from: Thermal Detonator on January 17, 2010, 04:19:40 PM

He is addicted to formulae. When he's not quoting equations, all he can do is grunt like a caveman.

lolwut?

Y'see your problem Steve is that the rest of the world has already figured out the earth is round. Therefore there was never any need to experiment with the curvature of light across the horizon.

But before you baww about circular logic there are also countless equations and scientific phenomena which prevent light bending as you require. Jack cited Einstein. There's many others.

However, you're a physics student at a reasonably affluent university. You're in a unique position to perform such experiments. I suggest you make it your final year project.

Einstein was a person, not an equation or a scientific phenomenon. Name one such thing that prevents light from bending in this way.

Quote from: Parsifal on January 21, 2010, 08:53:34 AM

Einstein was a person, not an equation or a scientific phenomenon. Name one such thing that prevents light from bending in this way.

The Laws Of Physics.

Could you be more specific?

Quote from: EnigmaZV on January 21, 2010, 11:40:38 AM

Could you be more specific?

I was typing out that exact sentence when I saw you had posted.

Why should I be more specific to people who are mentally capable of understanding what I mean but must have their brains switched off?

Quote from: Thermal Detonator on January 21, 2010, 11:47:54 AM

Why should I be more specific to people who are mentally capable of understanding what I mean but must have their brains switched off?

Because that's how we play the game here.

Name one such thing that prevents light from bending in this way.

You seem to be suffering from amnesia. Let me quote Jack:

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The debate is over long time ago. Due to a consensus among the FEW members, the bendy light theory (its violation to GR's equivalence principle on gravitation=acceleration; an elevator accelerating upward should cause a horizontal light beam bend down, not up, relative to the observer) is no longer the plausible explanation behind optical phenomenons such as sinking ship effect or sunsets/sunrises. We decided to keep our old traditional perspective explanations instead.


http://www.astronomynotes.com/relativity/s3.htm

Please stop spreading this theory around to mislead new members.

Seriously. Post some funny stuff. Like fishes nudging boats or sky mirrors. I like it when you post stuff like that.