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There are lots of Myths and misconceptions about the speed of light, and I’m going to cover several of them in this video.
Veritasium video
youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k
PBS Space time on Speed of Causality
youtube.com/watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo
Tom Scott’s video
youtube.com/watch?v=tozuzV5YZ7U
Sources:
Speed of
forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/07/02/does-anything-other-than-light-travel-at-the-speed-of-light
Speed of gravity
sciencealert.com/speed-of-gravitational-waves-and-light-same
Sean M. Carroll’s interview
youtube.com/watch?v=fOeLjD-dZjc
Graviton
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/physics/137-physics/general-physics/particles-and-quantum-physics/813-what-is-a-graviton-intermediate
Neutrinos and supernovae
physicsworld.com/a/new-correction-to-speed-of-light-could-explain-sn1987-neutrino-burst
Speed of causality
forbes.com/sites/jillianscudder/2016/06/24/is-cause-effect-limited-by-the-speed-of-light/?sh=514116221a58
sciencealert.com/watch-why-the-speed-of-light-is-not-about-light
Why it slows down
moviesandscience.com/blog/science/refractive-index
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/133-physics/general-physics/general-questions/832-is-the-speed-of-light-constant-beginner
Polariton
sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/polariton
mappingignorance.org/2018/01/25/what-on-earth-is-a-polariton
nature.com/subjects/polaritons
Freezing of light
sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130806111151.htm
physics.aps.org/articles/v6/80
physics.aps.org/articles/v10/s25
Speed limit
forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/10/09/the-universe-has-a-speed-limit-and-it-isnt-the-speed-of-light/?sh=a782bac75549
How to measure it
arxiv.org/pdf/2012.12037.pdf
universetoday.com/149554/theres-no-way-to-measure-the-speed-of-light-in-a-single-direction
arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1011/1011.1318.pdf
users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rtaylor/teaching/specrel.pdf
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10701-020-00337-5
link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjd/e2012-20524-8
arxiv.org/pdf/1212.2259.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/1310.1171.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/0911.3616.pdf
aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3160665
scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/could-what-we-consider-as-the-speed-of-light-be-wrong.html
spaceaustralia.com/news/one-way-speed-light
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-convensimul/
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12648-012-0112-4
Galaxy distortions
sites.ualberta.ca/~pogosyan/teaching/ASTRO_122/lect24/lecture24.html
universetoday.com/21998/the-diameter-of-the-milky-way
astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/43739/how-distorted-will-our-galaxy-be-if-we-are-viewing-it-from-several-thousand-ligh
There are lots of Myths and misconceptions about the speed of light, and I’m going to cover several of them in this video.
Veritasium video
youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k
PBS Space time on Speed of Causality
youtube.com/watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo
Tom Scott’s video
youtube.com/watch?v=tozuzV5YZ7U
Sources:
Speed of
forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/07/02/does-anything-other-than-light-travel-at-the-speed-of-light
Speed of gravity
sciencealert.com/speed-of-gravitational-waves-and-light-same
Sean M. Carroll’s interview
youtube.com/watch?v=fOeLjD-dZjc
Graviton
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/physics/137-physics/general-physics/particles-and-quantum-physics/813-what-is-a-graviton-intermediate
Neutrinos and supernovae
physicsworld.com/a/new-correction-to-speed-of-light-could-explain-sn1987-neutrino-burst
Speed of causality
forbes.com/sites/jillianscudder/2016/06/24/is-cause-effect-limited-by-the-speed-of-light/?sh=514116221a58
sciencealert.com/watch-why-the-speed-of-light-is-not-about-light
Why it slows down
moviesandscience.com/blog/science/refractive-index
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/133-physics/general-physics/general-questions/832-is-the-speed-of-light-constant-beginner
Polariton
sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/polariton
mappingignorance.org/2018/01/25/what-on-earth-is-a-polariton
nature.com/subjects/polaritons
Freezing of light
sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130806111151.htm
physics.aps.org/articles/v6/80
physics.aps.org/articles/v10/s25
Speed limit
forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/10/09/the-universe-has-a-speed-limit-and-it-isnt-the-speed-of-light/?sh=a782bac75549
How to measure it
arxiv.org/pdf/2012.12037.pdf
universetoday.com/149554/theres-no-way-to-measure-the-speed-of-light-in-a-single-direction
arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1011/1011.1318.pdf
users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rtaylor/teaching/specrel.pdf
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10701-020-00337-5
link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjd/e2012-20524-8
arxiv.org/pdf/1212.2259.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/1310.1171.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/0911.3616.pdf
aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3160665
scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/could-what-we-consider-as-the-speed-of-light-be-wrong.html
spaceaustralia.com/news/one-way-speed-light
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-convensimul/
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12648-012-0112-4
Galaxy distortions
sites.ualberta.ca/~pogosyan/teaching/ASTRO_122/lect24/lecture24.html
universetoday.com/21998/the-diameter-of-the-milky-way
astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/43739/how-distorted-will-our-galaxy-be-if-we-are-viewing-it-from-several-thousand-ligh
