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Comments by "Sander x" (@Pumbear) on "Why No One Has Measured The Speed Of Light" video.
How about this: Two lasers at a distance. They fire lasers on random intervals at a detector in the centre. The detector starts detecting after a random period and only detects from which side it received the first laser after starting up. If c is not equal for either direction then the detector should on average detect more lasers coming from the "fast" direction.
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I get moving the clocks creates time dilation relative to each other which hypothetically could be different based on direction, but why not just measure from multiple directions with regards to a point that didn't experience time dilation? You will then measure the one way speed of light for each direction with an inaccuracy caused by their individual amount of time dilation, so the speed of light will be wrong, but that doesn't matter since the only thing your interested in is whether or not they're exactly as wrong as each other. And if they have an equal error than that means the speed of light should be the same in all directions. So for example 3 timing devices, put them in a line. You sync them up and make them start counting, you move two of them in opposite directions with regards to the one in the center. They both fire lasers at the center clock and the running timers keep track of when they leave/arrive respectively. Compare the tables and see if the different directions produced the same error. Why wouldn't that work?
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@notPrvr Yes that's the point. They only travel one way, but in opposite directions, both going towards the same point in between them. If their speeds were to be different then the detector would measure more pulses coming from the fast direction. This wouldn't measure what their one-way-speed would be, but it would prove whether or not they are different. And if they aren't different, then the one-way speed must be the same as the two-way speed.
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