The speed of light is NOT constant

[jneutron]

Originally Posted by tvrgeek

LHC: New power record this week.

Yep, but it is not without concern. They have to watch the solder joints VERY closely, as they are running much closer to the cliff.. An interconnect quench may end up being non-reversible..the last time that happened, 50 ton magnets played leapfrog in the tunnel.

jn

[tvrgeek]

I thought the design limit was like 11 or something. This shot was 8 bazziollion whatevers.
And to think I worry about blowing up a couple of output transistors.

[7n7is]

Relativity skeptics and aether proponents

[jneutron]

Originally Posted by tvrgeek

I thought the design limit was like 11 or something. This shot was 8 bazziollion whatevers.
And to think I worry about blowing up a couple of output transistors.

I believe design was 7 Tev per ring, total of 14 Tev center of mass collisions.

The dipole current is about 13 kiloamps, it runs through a superconductor that is 600 mils wide by 70 mils thick. (15.3mm by 1.75 mm). If the conductor decides it is no longer a superconductor (quenches), the current density is a tad more than the copper jacket can withstand for long. So they have to be very careful, as it doesn't take long for a wire that size to exceed 1062 C (copper melting temp), or even 232C (tin/silver solder melt).


jn

[scott wurcer]

Originally Posted by 7n7is

Relativity skeptics and aether proponents

... he concluded that, at the end of the journey, the time recorded by the moving clock was less than that recorded by the stationary clock. The result did not follow from the experiment, but was simply an assumption slipped in implicitly during the complicated procedure.

Sorry to say 7n7 that NIST has clocks now that can measure this in a 4 story elevator ride. The experiment can be repeated by anyone anytime, ad nauseum.

[7n7is]

Which also supports Lorentz's and Larmor's theories, which I told you before. You didn't read enough of the references again.

[tvrgeek]

jn,
wow. I love big machines, and the audacity necessary to build them. I did get to see inside the Advanced Light Source, LBL, Tiny by comparison, but gad what a machine and the history of what has been done there.

[scott wurcer]

Originally Posted by 7n7is

Which also supports Lorentz's and Larmor's theories, which I told you before. You didn't read enough of the references again.

"ALSO" so please differentiate and eliminate ambiguity. I don't take Ivor Catt seriously if you do fine so be it.

[danoz]

Not sure if this has been said... 828 pages is too many to read.

The speed of light is a mathematical constant, so it cannot change by definition.

If for some strange reason electromagnet radiation takes more or less than 3.3ns or so to travel one metre, that does not change the speed of light, but will change how long 1 metre is.

Speed of light - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maybe there is some wisdom in USA not adopting the metric system ;-)

[jneutron]

Originally Posted by tvrgeek

jn,
wow. I love big machines, and the audacity necessary to build them. I did get to see inside the Advanced Light Source, LBL, Tiny by comparison, but gad what a machine and the history of what has been done there.

I never made it into the tunnel of the LHC, but did see the "leapfrog" players that were replaced. Man, those puppies are 45 feet long out of the cryostat. It's surprising what happens when the energy of a 747 travelling at 450 knots is released in a small confined area..

jn