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But it doesn't. The experimental procedure seems to involve a spinning disk that either allows light to travel through its entire diameter or not in an instantaneous fashion. I challenge you to try to fabricate such a device.

You'll run into an obvious problem that the disk doesn't have infinite rigidity. Otherwise you could solve the one way speed of light problem by simply poking a button at the receiver's clock with a long stick. Clearly the wave propagation through the long stick happens much slower than the light getting there...



Disproving light travels infinitely quickly in one direction is easier than you think and does not require the apparatus you've described. Perfect synchronization and extremely high resolution are definitely not needed to measure that one...


Can you describe or point to a simpler (or any) apparatus that would be capable of this result?




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