re: "Black box" thought experiment

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Success_Machine — 10/28/2003 12:41:38 AM (archived)

Suppose we have a black box floating in space. We observe that the speed of light outside the box is the same as a vacuum, 299,792,458 m/s. However when light passes though the box, it emerges late, and with the distance covered is measured to be only 199,861,638 m/s. Somehow the speed of light decreases in this volume of *space*. What are the laws of physics in this closed-bounded mini-universe?

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Hey SM... - Adam - 10/24/2003 1:47:35 AM
- re: Good reference, but I don't like the ether idea - Success_Machine - 10/24/2003 2:22:18 AM
  - Know what you mean... - Adam - 10/26/2003 10:10:28 AM
    - re: Lightspeed constant - Success_Machine - 10/27/2003 4:40:25 PM
      - re: If lightspeed is merely a proportionality constant between matter and energy - Success_Machine - 10/28/2003 12:24:59 AM
        
        re: "Black box" thought experiment - Success_Machine - 10/28/2003 12:41:38 AM
        
        "Speed of light" in a medium... - Adam - 10/28/2003 11:15:17 AM
        
        re: "Speed of light" in a medium... - Johannes - 10/29/2003 2:49:12 AM
        
        re: I know, I was just speculating - Success_Machine - 10/29/2003 2:29:37 AM
  - re: Good reference, but I don't like the ether idea - Johannes - 10/26/2003 3:10:41 AM

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