Bufnagle: the Podcast

Ep 191: On Light, Part 1: Measuring Light Speed — How Do They Actually Do That?

May 21, 2024 Bufnagle Season 1 Episode 191

Harry and Rafe present the first part of a series on the  the speed of light and special relativity.

In this episode, they discuss basic Galilean relativity and discuss how the speed of light was actually measured prior to the year 1700 using eclipses of the moons of Jupiter.

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